Young people in low- and middle-income countries appear generally more optimistic about how AI can enhance their work prospects and…
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When I talk to my son, an engineering student, and we have a question or disagreement, he immediately turns to…
Earlier this year in Beijing, a humanoid robot crossed a half-marathon finish line in a blistering 50 minutes, 26 seconds.…
By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will be associated with more than eight million deaths around the world every year. These…
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the fitness industry: people can now ask chatbots to write marathon plans, build gym programs…
South Africa is moving away from coal-fired electricity, which currently supplies 74% of the country’s power, to wind and solar energy. But…
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), and especially large language models deployed as chatbots and digital assistants, are now part of everyday…
Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it…
“Just as we always suspected”, writes musician and writer Anna Goldsworthy in her new Quarterly Essay on AI, “the god…
Just over a third (38%) of the residents of South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg, reported being satisfied with their electricity services…