The issue is the overloading of the word “AI”.
“Machine Learning using Neural Networks” is a technique that can come up with decent but rough solutions to problems where it’s hard to come up with any solution.
“Large Language Models” is the application of “Machine Learning using Neural Networks” to natural language processing, and it is incredibly good at that.
The problem comes when people apply models trained for natural language processing onto other random problems just because you can formulate anything as a natural language problem.