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Science & Technology

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Science & Technology

Is AI a Blessing or a Curse? Ronald Sangunji Weighs In

    By Dilia Mazula    As the tech industry progresses, it triggers questions and debates regarding the potential risks, particularly concerning AI. Fears mount over the potential harm that could arise if AI falls into the wrong hands and is wielded for malicious purposes.  Numerous online reports have investigated AI's capacity to manipulate and potentially deceive humans, with Deepfakes emerging as a concerning trend. Governments are increasingly apprehensive about […]

todayMay 15, 2024 57

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Artificial Intelligence powered attacks

      By Ms. Cornelia Shipindo, Manager: Cyber Security, Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN)   As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology advances, Namibia stands at the threshold of unprecedented opportunities to reshape industries and elevate the quality of life for its citizens. From expanding productivity in agriculture and manufacturing to revolutionising healthcare delivery and transportation systems, the potential applications of AI appear boundless. However, amidst this wave of excitement […]

todayMay 14, 2024 20

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Science journalism in South Africa: social media is helping connect with new readers

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images, CC BY     By Sisanda Nkoala, University of the Western Cape     Science journalism is about taking complex academic research and turning it into easy-to-read content that is still accurate. Aside from informing readers through evidence-based journalism, it aims to make the wider public curious about scientific research. This article is an example of science journalism. As a media professor I conducted a study on […]

todayMay 10, 2024 21

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African sci-fi: body hopping, artificial wombs and angry ghosts in a future Botswana

  By Nedine Moonsamy, University of Johannesburg   Tlotlo Tsamaase has already proved her talent for African science fiction. Her masterly short stories, one previously shortlisted for the Caine Prize, are helping put Botswana on the literary map. Her debut novel, Womb City, interweaves the mythological and digital expanses of Batswana culture in dystopian fashion. We encounter a distant future world in which women remain charged with ensuring their own […]

todayMay 10, 2024 30

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Entertainment

Universal’s music is returning to TikTok, ending a spat that hurt fans more than anyone

    By James Hall, Edith Cowan University   A longstanding feud between TikTok and Universal Music Group seems to have finally reached an end, with both parties signing a deal that will see Universal-backed music returned to the social media platform. Universal first removed its artists’ work from TikTok about three months ago, restricting access to tunes from household names such as Billie Eilish, Adele, Harry Styles, Drake, Kendrick […]

todayMay 6, 2024 25

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AI can now generate entire songs on demand. What does this mean for music as we know it?

PeamDesign / Shutterstock Oliver Bown, UNSW Sydney In March, we saw the launch of a “ChatGPT for music” called Suno, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar competitor – Udio – arrived on the scene. I’ve been working with various creative computational tools for the past 15 years, both as a researcher and a producer, and the […]

todayMay 6, 2024 52

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Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely

    By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Bond University   Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask themselves whether they are equally happy for courts in China, Russia and Iran to determine what Australians can see and post online in Australia. This is the problem with […]

todayApril 25, 2024 31

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UNESCO AI Readiness Assessment underway in Namibia

Namibia, one of UNESCO's 22 African Member States, is participating in the Readiness Assessment Methodology for Artificial Intelligence, along with over 50 countries worldwide. This survey which is underway will assist Namibia in developing a governance framework with measures to incentivize the types of Artificial Intelligence that will help address social, environmental, and economic challenges. Albertus Aochamub, Ambassador of Namibia to UNESCO.

todayApril 22, 2024 72

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Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI’s ethical challenges?

Finding ethics’ place in the engineering curriculum. PeopleImages/iStock via Getty Images Plus     By Elana Goldenkoff, University of Michigan and Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan   A chatbot turns hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum collects images of users in private situations. A Black woman is falsely identified as a suspect on the basis of facial recognition software, which tends to be less accurate at identifying women […]

todayApril 22, 2024 29

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