It's not false, as I don't mean that there is NO coverage in the media. Rather that, given the very big advances in this sort of tech, and especially the fact that it/they are being used already in war and conflict zones, I'd have thought it would be talked about....preeety much all of the time.
On the 'an advance is not a breakthrough' - I'm not sure what would count as a breakthrough as any behaviour or ability of any sort would have an already existing equivalent, albeit at a simpler level perhaps, that could be seen as the development point.
I suppose if aliens appear and have their own AI's then we might see something truly new but I suspect that it would have elements of that species own behaviour and abilities, too.
There ain't nothing new under the sun(s). (who said that originally?)
