You may be right about the state of ML today and not ready to be called AI. At the same time the reasoning that it's because it's a black box contraption or min

You may be right about the state of ML today and not ready to be called AI. At the same time the reasoning that it's because it's a black box contraption or mindless tools isn't very strong. The same arguments could be made for human intelligence, we don't know how it works, wasn't consciously designed but rather evolved randomly to solve concrete tasks in unknown ways.