I agree, this is why I think the term 'Artificial Intelligence' is a bit misleading. A better term would be 'Simulated Intelligence' because what these programmes seem to do is leverage speed and processing power to mimic-but not really replicate- the way that real intelligence works.

So you get this initial impression that something genuinely intelligent is at work only to find that this was something of an illusion, and that what you really have is a highly specialised system that does some things extraordinarily well, but other quite simple things are beyond it's comprehension.

I think this may explain why so often developments in AI seem to promise so much and yet so often fail to deliver. I am still waiting for that self driving taxi to pull up outside my house, but so far no luck.