I think part of the problem was they needed to pitch the project to the government to get it funded. Probably easier to sell the idea of the Homer Simpson Model

I think part of the problem was they needed to pitch the project to the government to get it funded. Probably easier to sell the idea of the Homer Simpson Model S[1] than what they actually needed. That, and everyone with any sort of deciding power were technology-illiterate bureaucrats who waste no opportunity to try to make us somehow use AI to somehow enhance this system in some fashion, largely so they could announce to the world that their system use AI somehow. [1] https://imgur.com/97lhWVR https://imgur.com/97lhWVR