From Concept to Cinema Just a while back, transforming a brief text into a video appeared to belong in the realm of science fiction literature. Today, the experience has become a normalized reality. A few sentences in your prompt, the…
A New Age of Artificial Intelligence Company Chat bots for NSFW girlfriend chatting have transitioned from being an odd little phenomenon of the internet to a popular search query for millions. They are being utilized, sought after, and even debated…
Digital Romance, of a Kind AI girlfriend chat bots have gone from the sort of sci-fi horror to the sort of thing. It turns out they’re real. People are using them to have conversations, be flirtatious, unload, have a laugh,…
For many it’s a simple desire for immediacy of some kind, a need for answers, for advice, for just someone (or something) they can chat to without logging in, sending emails, filling out questionnaires, and remembering yet another username and…
Circular economy policy is usually explained as a very straightforward concept: use fewer raw materials, get products to stay in use longer, make less waste, and recover value at the end of their useful lives. In theory, it seems easy…
Information has always been the backbone of freshwater stewardship. In order to intervene effectively, governments, water utilities, landowners, businesses and the wider public need to understand current conditions on rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers and catchments. Too often, however, we do…
Agriculture is at the nexus of a host of environmental challenges, from the need to feed the world and provide people with livelihoods to land and water stewardship, pollution reduction, biodiversity protection, and climate adaptation. This is not an easy…
We often hear about AI as a solution to the environmental crisis: modelling the climate, protecting biodiversity, detecting pollution, optimizing farming and water management, or planning a transition to circular economy systems. AI can support all of these things, but…
Targets are central to environmental policy. Governments regularly establish objectives for emission cuts, biodiversity recovery, water quality and pollution abatement, nature restoration, circular economy targets and climate adaptation. Such goals are important because they offer direction and foster accountability. But…
We are all reliant on the daily movement of raw materials in the supply chain: metals, minerals, timber, biomass, plastics, aggregates, chemicals, and construction materials. Materials are used to manufacture buildings, vehicles, electronics, packaging, energy systems, infrastructure and products for…