While we love it, this cruise must be getting awfully boring for most of you.  So today I'll focus on something weighty, the  Artificial Intelligence Arms Race , mostly from an article by Andrew Chow and Billy Perrigo of  Time  magazine.  You can read the details yourself, so I'll only provide some highlights. Starts poetically with: T o create is human. For the past 300,000 years we’ve been unique in our ability to make art, cuisine, manifestos, societies: to envision and craft something new where there was nothing before . Then: Now we have company. While you’re reading this sentence,  artificial intelligence  (AI) programs are painting cosmic portraits, responding to emails, preparing tax returns, and recording  metal songs . They’re writing pitch decks, debugging code, sketching architectural blueprints, and providing health advic e. While much of AI is still only coming, this technology is already being used to price products like medicine, assemble cars and determine ads