Truth Social I'm sure. As hard as it is to believe, there are still people who think Trump is a genius, and still want to "own the Libs".

"...do you discover who's been swimming naked."

AI mostly comes to us from California, the original land of "Fake it till you make it". AI fakes intelligent results, without "knowing" anything, with what Gary Marcus calls "a world model". A world model means you "know", that you "understand", that you "comprehend" that:

-- the cited-cases part of a legal filing should be only drawn from the list of existing cases that the thing was given
-- that laws mentioned should exist in documents called "Title Code" that the thing was given
-- that there are laws, these are supreme "orders" above others given
-- that one of them is "killing human beings is against supreme orders that supercede all other instructions" (sorry, not on topic: it's just HAL didn't "know" the 3 laws)
-- that human hands have just the five fingers.

They just fake it, producing documents that look like good ones. They can't make it. Not in them. No world model.

And the tide is going out.

Because they're the most powerful and easy to use, and likely only, data manipulation tool a person with no hint of computing-specific education is likely to run across.

IIRC the accident statistics on Tesla and Google auto-driving vehicles show that they're safer than an average newly minted 16 year-old driver, and we've (almost) all been that person at one time.

Ad when has any member of this Sadministration bothered to comply with the Constitution, the law, or an executive order? They do whatever they feel will please the Orangutan in Chief so that he can direct some of the graft their way.

Their airfoil design was what got the aviation industry under way, no one else had worked out an actual functional design yet. Otto Lelienthal for example was killed when his glider stalled because of poor airfoil configuration. IIRC they also worked out the mechanics of a wind tunnel trying to figure out the correct shape.

Pretty much everyone ignored the Wright brothers' patents at the time, if they hadn't the worldwide aviation industry would have have been stunted for decades.

Aircraft just have an obvious beginning that pretty much everyone is aware of, feel free to pick your own example.

Wow, I can't decide. Either you're remarkably ignorant about the Middle East in general and Iranian society in particular, or you're an Usrael troll. Congratulations!

China learned almost a thousand years ago that attempting to conquer and occupy foreign territory against the wishes of its populace was unsustainable, while trade links and mutual interests could last centuries. Unfortunately the US does not have the history to have learned that, nor the ability to learn from other cultures.

The Strait of Hormuz consists entirely of Iranian and Omani coastal waters, no international waters there. They have every bit as much right to decide what happens in the Strait of Hormuz as the US and Canada have to decide what happens in the Strait of Juan de Fuca that enters into Puget Sound.

Americans blatantly "steal" Chinese IP as well, that's how technology progresses. Or do you think that if China wants to build an airplane they should have to invent a whole new airfoil rather than "steal" from the Wright brothers? I personally have come to think that the whole idea of "imaginary property" is more of a drag on our civilization than a benefit. I used to be of the opposite opinion but the more I learned about the history of technology the less value protecting IP seemed to have for society as a whole.

How are these people not in prison?

Function did its job, exactly as designed.

Whether it's legal to use or not is dependent on jurisdiction and circumstances (and still hasn't been established!), but the function existing and allowing a user to use it is no bad thing.

Think a mugger demanding you access your bank accounts. Oh, no, look, the phone's stopped working...

a.k.a. throwing money at rubbish ideas, and seeing what sticks.

The greatest business strategy of all time /s

We really shouldn't encourage that type of behaviour. That's how you get more of it.