Is our evolving relationship with tech shifting our view of actuality?

This yr noticed the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anybody can converse with, and the information {that a} quantum pc simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what’s actual altering, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

THIS was an enormous yr for me professionally, and in addition one of many hardest years of my life personally. I received 4 awards for science writing, together with three for my e book The Disordered Cosmos. However my pricey Uncle George Preudhomme handed away, and saying goodbye was extraordinarily troublesome. Dying is, unsurprisingly, typically exhausting as a result of we would like individuals to go on perpetually. And maybe the strangest factor about 2022 is that it seems like we’re starting to confront a form of real-life science fiction the place that may develop into doable.

Only a week after Uncle George’s funeral, ChatGPT turned …