is that things being sold as AI aren't just a fraud. We already know that these tools rely on huge amounts of third world labor. I think it's just a matter of time before we discover that these are just elaborate mechanical Turks, and the force behind the "AI" is just low paid humans on the other side of the planet.

No, it wasn't "AI" that came up with this, it was "NS" (Natural Stupidity).

It is breathtaking that a bunch of AI "experts" in academia, who we must presume have advanced degrees, don't seem to have even a rudimentary understanding of how governments work.

any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word "no."

I agree: the amount of money they could have lost trying to sell an Oracle Smart Phone is incalculable

What's to stop you encrypting your data and storing it somewhere on the internet instead of taking a physical copy through a checkpoint?

If a terrorist wants to bomb a plane, he's going to need to smuggle a bomb past security, so checking people for bombs isn't exactly a stupid idea (whether the balance between safety, security, privacy, and theatrics is good is a whole different matter). But if he's got some "terrorist data" to move around, why would he physically carry it?

It'll always be a pling to me.

So in other words... he printed to printers.

Pretty sure it's the same in the UK.

You should have another think about my admittedly facetious question.

Not that you should need to, since others have already explained my point, and you've apparently avoided addressing it.

Have you heard of "tides" at all?

0 is a number.

Oh, sure, wait and see. You know who else had a "wait and see" attitude? Jim Henson. And now we have wrong-sounding muppets.

Didn't they say the same thing about those very nuclear reactors you're proposing to build when the idea was first mooted?

How did they even test it? It is pretty astonishing. I mean, just look at how many tries it took SpaceX to get booster landing right.

How many years is it now?