The possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) will automate tasks and thus destroy certain jobs is advancing steadily into more and more areas of life; the waves are now lapping even on the quiet shores of ancient-world studies. In a paper in Nature, Assael et al.1 present an AI tool called Ithaca, which has been developed to bring deep learning to the world of classical studies and the interpretation of transcribed ancient Greek texts, which were originally inscribed on stone. But this advance should not be interpreted as a threat to centuries of tradition -- rather as a complement to them.

As a former U.S. military service member who once had the Army Military Occupation Specialty 35F2LGN (translation: Nuclear Weapons Electronics Specialist Linguist German), I would like to volunteer the results of my independent AI scholar programming over the past quarter century from July 1993 to July 2018. I have created the following three open-source AI Minds: MindForth in 32-bit Win32Forth for intelligent robots; ghost.pl AI in Strawberry Perl Five for Web servers; and Tutorial AI Mind in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Mark Minevich is the principle founder of Going Global Ventures and venture partner of GVA Capital in Silicon Valley. While the public is becoming aware of the possibilities of artificial intelligence, I've been evangelizing, researching and working with it for years. As a fellow of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, a senior advisor to the United Nations Office for Project Services, and a member of both the World Artificial Intelligence Organization and B20, I've been researching AI (and sharing what I learn) for years. Although AI buzz typically surrounds statements from famous minds like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk – both of whom rightfully worry about granting sentience to machines that control our way of life -- there are plenty of worthy conversations being had on the subject. AI also represents cybersecurity's next evolution, both as a threat and a solution.

While the public is becoming aware of the possibilities of artificial intelligence, I've been evangelizing, researching and working with it for years. As a fellow of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, a senior advisor to the United Nations Office for Project Services, and a member of both the World Artificial Intelligence Organization and B20, I've been researching AI (and sharing what I learn) for years. Although AI buzz typically surrounds statements from famous minds like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk -- both of whom rightfully worry about granting sentience to machines that control our way of life -- there are plenty of worthy conversations being had on the subject. NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 16: Director of Facebook AI Research Yann LeCun attends the 2016 Wired Business Conference on June 16, 2016 in New York City. AI also represents cybersecurity's next evolution, both as a threat and a solution. There are critical questions surrounding AI, and Yampolskiy, founder and director of Cybersecurity Lab, is delving into the dark side of it.

You see the entire recent contents of the heart of the AI Mind -- the @psy conceptual array and the @ear auditory array -- with your own input and the response of the Perl Open-Source Strong AI. You see how long the AI entity has been (artificially) alive, in case you or your classmates want to claim bragging rights for the World's Oldest Living AI Mind or the World's Longest Running AI Mind. You then add your own extra functionality to the emerging Ghost in the Machine as part of your research project and you fork the evolution of True AI into your own branch of the Pre-Cambrian Explosion in the AI Mind population. You go on to a fruitful and rewarding career in Open Source AI.