South Africa, April 15 -- Ghosts, gods, 80-year old Elvis.

Life on Mars, monsters in lochs, manufactured moon landings.

Led Zeppelin that plays backwards, turmeric that cures Covid.

None of these things are proven to be real, but many people believe them. As a reformed catholic, a light-hearted heretic, and one-time viewer of the King's corpse, I am not one of them. In a twist of fate that a certain Canadian cult hero would find ironic, one of the few things I do believe in happens to be artificial.

AI has been around for an entire age.

Contrary to popular lore, it didn't miraculously appear as if from nowhere when OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022. Even when we built Helm Engine in 2016, artificial intelligence (in its early ...