They still are.

Artificial Intelligence is a whole subfield of Computer Science.

Code built of nothing but if/else statements controlling the behavior of game NPCs is AI.

A* search is AI.

NLP is AI.

ML is AI.

Computer vision models are AI.

LLMs are AI.

None of these are AGI, which is what does not yet exist.

One of the big problems underlying the current hype cycle is the overloading of this term, and the hype-men's refusal to clarify that what we have now is not the same type of thing as what Neo fights in the Matrix. (In some cases, because they have genuinely bought into the idea that it is the same thing, and in all cases because they believe they will benefit from other people believing it.)