Opinion

AI: Absolute Ignorance? I think it’s pretty clear that humanity is on the cusp of something really rather special. Just three years ago, if somebody had told us that we would be having real human-like conversations with our computers, I don’t think anyone would have believed that we were quite there yet. We all knew […]

Why we could be alone after all We don’t know how many stars there are in our own galaxy, let alone any of the other estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies that make up the observable universe, but a ballpark figure often quoted is around the 100 billion mark. That’s a lot of stars, I