Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

I beg to differ. An apology means that you feel bad about harm inflicted upon others. To prove the point: You apologize when you’re late due to circumstances that are outside of your control. Or when you accidentally bump into someone on the bus when the driver slams the break.

If the GDPR were worth a damn, this leak of over 200M data subjects’ data should be more than enough to completely liquidate this company to pay for damages.

60m records in Germany. That 3/4 of the population. The US has 350m inhabitants. 200m leaked records accounts for more than half!

And why is that?

BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID!

- Is your router on?

- Yes.

- What color are the lights?

- There are no lights.

- Please turn the router on.

To be fair, customer service is useless either way. At least I can curse the AI into oblivion.

If you argue like that then neither intelligence nor societies exist. A the fundamental level, every neuron just computes its output from its inputs, quite predictably even. That doesn’t mean emergent behaviours cannot exist.