To answer "What is AI?" you first have to answer "What is I?"
Check out the Apple ][ at the Dolphin Research Center in 1982, and Ron Reisman’s thoughts about dolphin intelligence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHCTNztnwQ&t=392s
“It’s gotten to the point that I never say anything about intelligence in general. I don’t know what it means any more. I used to. But then I started trying to test it. And if you think about it for a while, you don’t know what it is.” -Ron Reisman