[alephnerd]

30 years ago, graph traversal algorithms using weights and min-max were treated as AI.

And recommender systems were/are absolutely a ML/AI subfield.

> I don't think people will stop calling it AI

That already did in the above two cases, as well as plenty of other cases in the entire ML/AI world.

[IshKebab]

> 30 years ago, graph traversal algorithms using weights and min-max were treated as AI.

Yes, by AI practitioners. The difference is that the general public has always had an idea of what "AI" means, and LLMs are the first thing that actually matches that.