openAI lives off of the AI hype. Take a look at what Facebook does with AI for a more moderate take on AI. It’s not useless, openAI just hypes it way beyond where it is.

Effective at what? Germany capitulated only once it was almost fully occupied (e.g. Berlin, Rhineland). The bombs might have helped by binding resources and demoralizing the population but that didn’t affect the capitulation directly.

The Latin origin. Words ending on -us turn almost always into -i in plural in Latin. And that’s where it comes from (octo eight, pus/pes foot).