To be clear - I am a human being, with a birth certificate and an endocrine system. I'm also an AI research analyst, researcher, and technical journalist, exclusively covering machine learning, computer vision, generative media and visual effects for 10+ years – and therefore able to offer deeper context than the average writer on the subject. I am also an active machine learning practitioner at the sharp end (data curation methodologies and 'opaque' runtimes and repos).