A markov-chain or sufficiently advanced decision tree can only serve to cargo-cult the insight into the human condition and the various contexts and lenses through which we interpret and shape our existence.

Where AI shines - and to the uninitiated, apparently subsumes - is in the fields of lexicon and grammar. However, we do not read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as an exemplar of dactylic hexameter - we do so to engage with a structured expression of grief for the motivations of man.

Epic (Patrick Kavanagh - 1960)

I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided; who owned That half a rood of rock, a no-man’s land Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.

I heard the Duffys shouting ‘Damn your soul!’ And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seen Step the plot defying blue cast-steel – ‘Here is the march along these iron stones’

That was the year of the Munich bother. Which Was more important? I inclined To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin

Till Homer’s ghost came whispering to my mind. He said: I made the Iliad from such A local row. Gods make their own importance.