@simon the mathematical structure of algorithms is as objective as it gets in terms of classifying them and "#AI" in its current #llm form is an incremental evolution of a vast prior body that ultimately goes back to linear regression.
Fitting functions to data, extrapolating and doing something with the outcome is bread and butter in many industries.
I suspect that one factor reinforcing the (ab)use of the term "AI" is to decouple any regulatory discussion from historically established norms