Nicola Jones

If you fancy catching up on all the hottest developments in science from 2023, here's my roundup for Knowable Magazine. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2023/top-scientific-news-and-breakthroughs-of-2023 And, since climate change is particularly close to my heart as a topic, here's one startling graph that really shows how weird 2023 was. What they're plotting here is the monthly temperature anomaly (in other words, how weirdly hot the month was). 2023 is a real standout, though 2016 was also super strange. Both are/were El Nino years (a natural climate pattern that also makes things hot, on top of climate change).

"As a teenager, Ilya Sutskever knocked on Geoffrey Hinton’s door at the University of Toronto in Canada and asked for a job. “He said he was cooking fries to make money over the summer, and he would rather be working for me doing AI,” says Hinton, who is often recognized as the godfather of modern artificial intelligence (AI)."  Sutskever later co-founded OpenAI, and, at age 38, is one of the architects of the blockbuster chatbot app ChatGPT. How did he get there, and what's next for AI? Read my profile in Nature's 2023 end of year special. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03925-3