Artificial intelligence, smart. Artificial life, dumb. Why?

Why is a weather drone that is less sophisticated than the device I wear on my wrist called artificial intelligence just because it can make course corrections and recharge it's solar powered battery banks without being monitored by human beings, but a robot fashioned after insectoid life forms is not, when it makes the decision to "blow this geek infestation of troglodyte as----es!!!" the second research students take a lunch break, and escape into the woods and get into an altercation with a squirrel is considered stupid as s--t, by researchers?