2024 has been called the year of AI in science. It saw the Nobel prizes in both physics and chemistry awarded to groups of…
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In the grand scheme of things, 45 years is not a long time. Back in 1980, it would take me…
In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) continued taking large and surprising steps forward. People started conversing with AI “resurrections” of the…
If you use social media, you’ve likely come across deepfakes. These are video or audio clips of politicians, celebrities or others manipulated using…
Since Donald Trump’s recent electoral win, rumours and speculation have circulated that Nasa’s giant Moon rocket, the Space Launch System…
Anthropomorphism occurs when we attribute human characteristics to non-human entities like animals or machines. Chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Gemini and…
The Canadian Space Agency announced a competition to name Canada’s first-ever rover mission to the moon. This unmanned mission will…
Nearly 50,000 dockworkers from the International Longshoremen’s Association went on strike across the United States Eastern Seaboard in October. The…
In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language…
AI is already everywhere, ready to change the way we work and play, how we learn and how we are…
