Launched in November 2022, the ChatGPT app quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software application in history. Since then, the floodgates of interest in and use of artificial intelligence seem to have opened in business, technology, medicine, and everyday life. But what is artificial intelligence? What’s an “intelligent machine" and “machine learning”? What’s real and what is, thus far, mostly hype? Artificial Intelligence is today’s story. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time. It demands nothing less than a searching re-examination of mind, thought, intelligence, ethics, and what it means to be human.