My comment is not a "shallow dismissal" of the work presented. In fact i have created solutions for the exact same problem in a similar way. The comment was exclusively pointing out that the solution and tools used in it, should not be classified as AI.
In industry we are converging on calling the types of models you train on known engineered features as ML. When you don't know what the features should be but just want a model that can be supervised on raw data its called AI.