Earlier this year in Beijing, a humanoid robot crossed a half-marathon finish line in a blistering 50 minutes, 26 seconds.…
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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…
Can technology really replace human relationships? As philosophy scholars who focus on human happiness and on artificial intelligence (AI), we…
Will you be flagged at the border? Will your mortgage application be approved? During wartime, whose neighbourhood would a weapon…