Yes! it is artificial, but No! it isn't intelligence. It’s all about control.
The internet was originally created for the "freedom of information", between them, Microsoft and Google are using what they call “AI” to stop this threat to their control of universal information.
In fact, there is no such thing as artificial intelligence. All software is created by programmers according to the wishes of their employers, and AI is no different. When you ask a question of an AI search engine, it will extract a selected response from a collection of preferred websites, irrespective of its voracity and/or authenticity.
AI software doesn't think about, or evaluate its responses, and its owners have no interest in truth, honesty or relevance. The claims made by such companies about safeguarding the public from dangerous or offensive websites refer only to sites that they regard as dangerous or offensive to their profit margins.
Moreover, whilst Microsoft and Google search engines, even before AI, deliberately ignore websites they don't like, both companies will publish data from them, but AI responses rarely identify its source. This is plagiarism.
AI is their way of controlling the information published on the internet to suit their financial agendas. Between them, Google and Microsoft are responsible for more than 93% of all internet searches; we (the general public) are responsible for having given them this monopoly. It now looks as though both companies are about to use their monopoly to demolish the internet's reason for existence.
All we can hope is that between them, Google and Microsoft will destroy their popularity and the general public will switch to other search engines, those that give us - the users - freedom of choice as to what we read and where we read it, just as it was when we had books.
So beware, next time you carry out a search in either Copilot or Google AI, don't accept their responses as correct; 'glue in pizzas', I ask you!