“Artificial intelligence” has been a misleading phrase for decades. It’s more a marketing term than an actual description. The most successful areas currently are in pattern recognition -- such things as facial recognition and robotics. They simulate many things that we humans and other animals can do, but we normally don’t say they involve “intelligence”.

So it’s a mistake to accept the phrase “artificial intelligence” at face value and then criticize the work for not involving intelligence. It’s the phrase, not the work, that is unhelpful.