Imagine a tribe of uncontacted hunter-gatherers in the deepest Amazon rainforest. Anthropologists airdrop dozens of smartphones loaded with social media…
Browsing: The Conversation
We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished…
The shortage of blood for medical use is a global challenge. South Africa is not exempt. Blood collection organisations such as…
Ideally, artificial intelligence (AI) agents aim to help humans, but what does that mean when humans want conflicting things? My…
Three South African environmental and climate justice organisations took the South African government to court in November 2021, to challenge…
Microsoft just celebrated its 50th anniversary. This article was written using Microsoft Word on a computer running Microsoft Windows. It…
I’m more of a scroller than a poster on social media. Like many people, I wind down at the end…
A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden…
There have been several headlines over the past week about an AI chatbot officially passing the Turing test. These news reports are based on a recent preprint…
You may have seen ads by Apple promoting its new Clean Up feature that can be used to remove elements in a…