Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to… - Erik Naggum

Is it still "artificial intelligence" when the task is to model human stupidity, or would only preventing its devastating consequences get an "AI" rating?

Look at Unix. It was essentially open source before anyone invented the term, and that caused a large number of ways to solve the same problem and left the market to sort them out, which they didn't (the market never will sort out bad quality in anything but the single most important property of the products), and Unix got itself into a position where some horribly demented crapware from Microsoft could compete with it and fool a whole bunch of people for a while.

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.