Pierre Mornet, Illustration of George EliotGeorge Eliot, or Mary Ann Evans as she was known to her friends, was one of the most influential writers of Victorian England. Amongst her greatest hits were The Mill on the Floss, a novel about two siblings grappling with family life, and Middlemarch, a meditation on marriage, idealism, and self-interest. Not many people have Eliot down as an influential player in the history of AI — and they would be right. Her contribution has been for most part over...