The problem is people keep moving the goalposts. As soon as some AI technique is shown, suddenly it's just an algorithm and not actually AI. AI is something else. And then we invent that, and suddenly it's just an algorithm, not AI.

AI is magic. As soon as you know how the trick is done, it's just a trick. It's not magic anymore. There can never be such thing as AI, because as soon as it's put into a computer, it's just an algorithm.

Computers are constantly doing things that only humans could have done just a few years prior, but it's never AI. It's just algorithms.