This 12 months noticed the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anybody can converse with, and the news {that a} quantum pc simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what’s actual altering, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Technology
| Columnist
14 December 2022
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THIS was an enormous 12 months for me professionally, and in addition one of many hardest years of my life personally. I gained 4 awards for science writing, together with three for my ebook The Disordered Cosmos. But my expensive Uncle George Preudhomme handed away, and saying goodbye was extraordinarily tough. Death is, unsurprisingly, typically laborious as a result of we would like folks to go on eternally. And maybe the strangest factor about 2022 is that it looks like we’re starting to confront a sort of real-life science fiction the place that may turn out to be potential.
Just every week after Uncle George’s funeral, ChatGPT turned …