I don't think erasing history, and saying that nothing Peter Norvig worked on was "AI" makes any sense at all.
Technology as a term has the same problem, “technology companies” are developing the newest digital technologies.
A spoon or a pencil is also technology according to definition, but a pencil making company is not considered a technology company. There is some quote by Alan Kay about this, but can’t find it now.
I try to avoid both terms as they change meaning depending on the receiver.
And it was fine there, because nobody, not even a layman, would mixup those with regular human intelligence (or AGI).
And laymen didn't care about those AI products or algorithms except as novelties, specicialized tools (like chess engines), or objects of ridicule (like the Clippy).
So we might be using AI as a term, but it was either as a techical term in the field, or as a vague term the average layman didn't care about much, and whose fruits would never conflate with general intelligence.
But now people attribute intelligence of the human kind to LLMs all the time, and not just laymen either.
That's the issue the parent wants to point.
So now, there's a lot of "not ackhtually intelligent" going around!