> Whenever someone brings up "AI", I tell them AI is not real AI.

You and also everyone since the beginning of AI. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/06/20/not-ai/

People saying that usually mean it as "AI is here and going to change everything overnight now" yet, if you take it literally, it's "we're actually over 50 years into AI, things will likely continue to advance slowly over decades".

The common thread between those who take things as "AI is anything that doesn't work yet" and "what we have is still not yet AI" is "this current technology could probably have used a less distracting marketing name choice, where we talk about what it delivers rather than what it's supposed to be delivering".