LLMs as AI is just a marketing term. there's nothing "intelligent" about "AI"
Yes there is. You just mean it doesn't have "high" intelligence. Or maybe you mean to say that there's nothing sentient or sapient about LLMs.
Some aspects of intelligence are:
Planning
Creativity
Use of tools
Problem solving
Pattern recognition
Analysts
LLMs definitely hit basically all of these points.
Most people have been told that LLMs "simply" provide a result by predicting the next word that's most likely to come next, but this is a completely reductionist explaining and isn't the whole picture.
Edit: yes I did leave out things like "understanding", "abstract thinking ", and "innovation".