First of all, the article doesn't mention Markov, and there are a lot of ways to generate text, so you may be jumping to conclusions. Second, the concept of AI

First of all, the article doesn't mention Markov, and there are a lot of ways to generate text, so you may be jumping to conclusions. Second, the concept of AI is so fragmented, varied, and overloaded, that who's really to say Markov text generation isn't a simple AI? And TBH, there's not much difference between Markov chains and most AI and machine learning algorithms. The math's a little different, but they're almost all based on probability and statistics (and sometimes searching) and none of them really understand anything.