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

This 12 months 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 12 months 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 guide The Disordered Cosmos. However my expensive Uncle George Preudhomme handed away, and saying goodbye was extraordinarily tough. Demise is, unsurprisingly, usually exhausting as a result of we wish individuals to go on without end. And maybe the strangest factor about 2022 is that it looks like we’re starting to confront a type of real-life science fiction the place that can turn into potential.

Only a week after Uncle George’s funeral, ChatGPT grew to become …