[1] Synthetic means that which is produced by synthesis, combining parts to form a whole; colloquially, a human-made version of that which has arisen naturally.
AI's first generation of researchers firmly believed their techniques would lead to real, human-like intelligence in machines.
Daniel Dennett believes that this is basically a disagreement about semantics, peripheral to the central questions of the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
He notes that even a chemically perfect imitation of a Chateau Latour is still a fake, but that any vodka is real, no matter who made it.
[12] Similarly, a perfect, molecule-by-molecule recreation of an original Picasso would be considered a "forgery", but any image of the Coca-Cola logo is completely real and subject to trademark laws.