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Except AI has always meant quite primitive things.

AI predates C. Actually AI predates lisp:

> IPL was used to implement several early artificial intelligence programs, also by the same authors: the Logic Theorist (1956), the General Problem Solver (1957), and their computer chess program NSS (1958).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_Langu...

Or maybe just a signal processor is being rebranded as AI.

Soon a Fast Fourier Transform will be rebranded as AI as well.

I had the same complaint over 20 years ago when the phrase "game AI" came into widespread use to describe a computer opponent. Now that we have an entire generation raised on the concept that anything a computer does is "AI" is it surprising everything a computer does is termed "AI"?

Wasn’t ML always considered AI?

I've never seen ML been called AI until the past few years. And this is most likely not even ML but just fancy signal processing.