Twenty years ago, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated previously unbeaten chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. I think they cheated… well; they had a plan. Deep Blue didn’t have to worry about eating, headaches, sleeping, etc. But it did beat him. Google’s AI beats the top Go (a 2,500-year-old game of complexity). AlphaGo matched its artificial wits against Fan Hui, Europe’s reigning Go champion, and the AI system went undefeated in five games. Now Alibaba’s AI (with Microsoft) has bested

Back at the beginning of 2020, I was incredibly stoked (and also pee-pee pants nervous) to be releasing my first novel. This book was a big deal for me. It took years to write, edit, re-write, pitch, edit, re-write, pitch, modify, re-write, and edit (did I mention there was editing and rewriting?), and behold, it was finally going to be published. A real book, sold in real stores, by a real author! And then the pandemic struck, and the release of my debut novel was understand