• Culture

    Petty Hollywood

    It is a shame that Tom Cruise’s outstanding performance in “Top Gun Maverick” has been overlooked by the Hollywood Foreign Press in their nomination for the Golden Globe awards. Despite receiving critical acclaim for his role, Cruise was not nominated for the Best Actor award. The reason for this snub is clear: Cruise had previously returned all three of his Golden Globe awards as a protest against the lack of diversity in the awards. Instead of taking this as an opportunity for introspection, the Hollywood Foreign Press has chosen to take it as a personal affront and has retaliated by snubbing Cruise’s performance. Furthermore, during the actual ceremony, the press…

  • Science

    Conscious Robots.

    The development of machine consciousness is a goal that is seen as the ultimate challenge in the field of artificial intelligence, according to Hod Lipson, the mechanical engineer in charge of the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University. Consciousness is a controversial topic within the field of AI, and has been a contentious issue for a long time, with scientists divided on the possibility of creating machines that have consciousness on par with a human. Lipson believes that creating a machine that has consciousness on par with a human will be the most significant achievement in the field of AI and will eclipse everything else that has been done so…