An AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Different AI systems vary in their levels of autonomy and adaptiveness after deployment.

Clear?

Doesn't that make:

#!/bin/bash

echo "$1"


an "AI system"?

OECD definition of "AI" 

 Perhaps a lot of weight rests on "infers" here.

My bash script is not "inferring" anything: it is simply repeating something given to it.

But - using the example in the paper - is a system with camera taking action based on a pixel really "inferring" that that pixel represents a person, or just that it has been programmed to take a particular action if data pass certain tests?