My first encounter with AI Chatbot — Today a correspondent wrote and asked about an old 1987 paperback novel titled NEVER THE TWAIN by Kirk Mitchell with a cover by artist James Gurney. The jacket featured an illustration of Mark Twain. The question was who should he contact to get permission to use it in a magazine article? When I went online to contact Gurney, I noticed he now had a ChatBot to answer questions. Wow! it provided information regarding ownership, copyrights, permissions of the jacket cover. Chatbot and I got into a discussion about Mark Twain and it even discussed and provided links to how Gurney drew that cover jacket as well as another drawing I did not know about. Gurney's website and his link to Chatbot is here -- https://jamesgurney.com Links the chatbot gave me: https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2021/02/cover-for-never-twain.html https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2021/09/joe-baer-as-mark-twain.html All in all, an interesting preview of literary research supported by AI. Barb