Well, technically they are AI. But speech recognition, face recognition, even showing you a route in gps navigation is technically under AI. We just accepted them as normal thing.

This text generation is IMO similar to AI creating pictures or creating music, it is just done with text.

It is not the kind of AI most people think of, like from sci-fi movies.

It’s basically trained to generate text that could fool a casual observer that it was written by a human.

It complicates things, because until now the test for AGI was being able to fool the tester to think they talk with another human.