I had idiocracy on my list for a while. After watching it, I can confirm that it’s easily one of the best movies ever made.

One of the only “AI” features that I’ve ever actually found useful was the thing that warned me when I sent an email that was missing an attachment. Basically, it was able to deduce that an attachment was likely missing, and showed me a “are you sure you want to send” prompt.

They typically look like a mildly used bar of soap on wheels.

I would think that, since it’s been recognised that these messages are costing a lot of energy (== money) to process, companies would at some point add a simple <if input == “thanks”> type filter to catch a solid portion of them. Why haven’t they?