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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded half to David Baker ‘for the design of proteins using computational techniques’ and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper ‘for the prediction of protein structure’.

On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to American physicist John Joseph Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist Geoffrey Everest Hinton. Although the prize was awarded in physics, the justification reads that it was based on ‘discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning through artificial neural networks’, which is clearly associated with computer science.

The rectors of Lodz University of Technology and the Medical University of Lodz have awarded for the third time a joint prize for the best scientific publication. The laureates of this distinction are the authors of the article "Lipid Profile in Children Born Small for Gestational Age", including: Dr. Justyna Zamojska (MUL), Dr. Katarzyna Niewiadomska-Jarosik (MUL), Dr. Beata Kierzkowska (MUL), Dr. Marta Gruca (MUL), Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Wosiak, Ph.D. (TUL), Prof. Elżbieta Smolewska, Ph.D. (MUL).

The development of virtual reality is gaining momentum every year. Although eighty years have passed since the creation of the first project which set the course for further activities in the field of immersive solutions, the topic of VR is still shrouded in mystery for many people. Before we start an adventure with virtual reality, it is advisable to know its definition, which was developed by the creator of the term virtual reality (VR).

Natural skepticism leads us to believe that the current rate of progress will remain the same in the future and therefore there is a long way to go before AI is more intelligent than us. The problem is that humans tend naturally to extrapolate the current rate of advancement to the next 10 or 100 years.

The creation of the humanoid, chatbot and in fact the AI algorithm in the cyborg body with the non-accidental name of Sophia (wisdom, but also the feminine face of God), once again has brought humanity up against the question of who should be granted civil rights.