This year saw the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anyone can converse with, and the news that a quantum computer simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what is real changing, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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THIS was a huge year for me professionally, and also one of the hardest years of my life personally. I won four awards for science writing, including three for my book The Disordered Cosmos. But my dear Uncle George Preudhomme passed away, and saying goodbye was extremely difficult. Death is, unsurprisingly, often hard because we want people to go on forever. And perhaps the strangest thing about 2022 is that it feels like we are beginning to confront a kind of real-life science fiction where that will become possible.
Just a week after Uncle George’s funeral, ChatGPT became …
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