Why Today's Artificial Intelligence is Different?

Why is today's narrow artificial intelligence (AI) not real? Most of the machine learning, deep learning algorithms and models are heavily relying on the statistical learning theory instead of causal learning, thus predicting spurious correlations instead of meaningful causation. This makes a critical difference for the whole enterprise, its applications, prospects, and impacts on every part of human life. We have to be intelligently critical and fully objective as modern science demands it, and as far as it concerns all of us and our human future. The AI world has been flooded with a series of gigantic language model projects promoted as the last word in AI.