Would love to see the never-AI guys chime in about how'd they'd rather not have this than suffer the depredations of BigAI
My main pet peeve is that AI is a blurry term almost to the point it has no definitions. It's basically a marketing term. AI has been applied, historically, to many trendy and novel facets of computer science, until they are not novel anymore and then they stop being AI. Expert systems, voice generation, image processing, genetic algorithms...
My take on the article: this is cool. I don't think I would call it AI though, if I could avoid it.