Sure. What they will call AI [an unspecified number of years in the future] will be compared similarly the the SOTA AI models.
For long time the term "artificial intelligence" has just gone out of favour, but I do remember the days where a good AI research lab had a bunch of symbolics lisp machines
I mean that we have visual recognition systems that do not use any kind of machine learning whatsoever and those are the majority of systems in use at industrial scale.
Laser interferometry and DCT image distance, primarily.
For long time the term "artificial intelligence" has just gone out of favour, but I do remember the days where a good AI research lab had a bunch of symbolics lisp machines