The goalpost has shifted a lot in the past few years, but in the broader and even narrower definition, current language models are precisely what was meant by AI and generally fall into that category of computer program. They aren’t broad / general AI, but definitely narrow / weak AI systems.

I get that it’s trendy to shit on LLMs, often for good reason, but that should not mean we just redefine terms because some system doesn’t fit our idealized under-informed definition of a technical term.