Arguing what is and isn't AI is kinda futile, since there's no solid definition. I remember some old footage I once found on YouTube of a very primitive automated system for an airport control tower (I think it was). I don't remember the year, but probably the 70's or so. The guy was calling it AI. Then went into detail about what the software was doing, even showing the code (maybe it was just the interface). It literally was just a whole lot of if/else statements. Once we get used to ChatGPT and the like, it will either stop being called AI or we will start talking more broadly about "General artificial intelligence" for the next thing to come.

Until recently I was on the side of not calling anything AI if it wasn't GAI, but honestly... who cares? Words are just tools to communicate ideas; if most people want to call the things we are doing today AI, that's ok, and it isn't even wrong. It isn't sentient, but it is arguably intelligent by some standards, and it is obviously artificial. If we understand each other, that's good enough.