There has been an audible buzz about Jack Draper in tennis circles for a while. But in 2023 expect the 21-year-old from Sutton in south-west London, who also has a contract with IMG Models, to crash into the mainstream. He certainly has enough of the right stuff, including the whiplash serve and punishing groundstrokes on the court, and the looks and personality off it. Draper first advertised his talents by taking a set off Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon in 2021, but it was in 2022 that he really made his mark – shooting from No 265 in the world rankings at the start of the year to a career-high 42nd by the end. Along the way, he has taken several high-profile scalps, including the 2020 US Open winner Dominic Thiem and world No 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas. He still needs to improve his fitness and ability to see out big games, but when he does, anything is possible. His fellow Brit Cameron Norrie says he is "sure" Draper "can easily get into the top 10". Expect Draper to make bounding strides towards that goal in the coming months. It may feel as if footballer Beth Mead has already made her mark.

A year of incredible science news was complemented with wide-ranging commentary at Scientific American. Our opinion section featured some of the best and brightest minds, taking us to the front lines of COVID, teaching us about the many fraught Supreme Court decisions involving science and evidence, and more. We learned, for example, about the pitfalls of artificial intelligence, how racists misuse evolutionary biology, and how our children's troubled mental health is another ongoing epidemic. Whether they were thought-provoking, deeply moving or challenged long-held beliefs, here are some of our editors' favorite opinion articles of 2022. This year, language models proved they can write humanlike text, with one AI chatbot generating such impressive responses that it convinced an engineer it was sentient.

So was 2022 the year that advancements in artificial intelligence made the world a much scarier place, or does it just feel that way? Put another way, did I write this introduction, or did a chat bot? Brian Christian is author of the bestselling book "The Alignment Problem," and he's here to help us look back and forward at the impact AI is having on our lives. Good to have you here. SHAPIRO: Well, in addition to everything we just heard about, this was also the year that a piece of art generated by AI won a prize at the Colorado State Fair.

No, I didn't write this limerick. Neither did I swipe it from anyone else. In fact, no human was involved in its composition. I had simply set out to write a year-end column on whether 2022 could be a turning point in artificial intelligence (AI) and turned to AI itself for help to get things going, having read far too much already about ChatGPT. This is the new AI-powered chatbot that has the chattering classes chattering like never before.

Generative AI is coming for videos. A new website, QuickVid, combines several generative AI systems into a single tool for automatically creating short-form YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat videos. Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube's royalty-free music library. QuickVid's creator, Daniel Habib, says that he's building the service to help creators meet the "ever-growing" demand from their fans. "By providing creators with tools to quickly and easily produce quality content, QuickVid helps creators increase their content output, reducing the risk of burnout," Habib told TechCrunch in an email interview.

ChatGPT's interactive interface that was made publicly accessible for testing and feedback has since gone viral on social media, with questions ranging from math problems to software programming source codes being generated by the AI tool. While ChatGPT has certain restrictions imposed on it, the viral social experiment underway through its interface raises several questions on how AI can potentially blur the lines between creative products resulting from human cognition and programmatically generated text that is almost human-like. The ease with which the AI tool is able to generate fiction in response to queries also poses questions on how to assess the truth quotient of artificially generated creative products. As an instance, when asked to compose an essay on events that may not have occurred historically, the AI tool got its dates mixed up. Fictional products from generative AI are perhaps less of a worry than students using it to draft project reports, solutions to assignments, and more.

It's been another interesting year in the world of artificial intelligence. We've seen large language models grow even larger, conferences returning to physical events, a raft of new policy developments, and machine learning techniques applied across the arts. Buckle up and join us for the ride as we review the year just gone. Research into both fundamental and applied aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning continues apace. Yue Ma and colleagues used machine-learning techniques to identify antimicrobial peptides encoded by the genome sequences of microbes in the human gut.

Law makers ask President Obama for more water pumping from Sacramento Delta.

After a year's hiatus, the AI Debate hosted by Gary Marcus and Vincent Boucher returned with a gaggle of AI thinkers, this time including policy types and scholars outside of the discipline of AI such as Noam Chomsky. After a one-year hiatus, the annual artificial intelligence debate organized by Montreal.ai Learn about the leading tech trends the world will lean into over the next 12 months and how they will affect your life and your job. The debate this year, AI Debate 3: The AGI Debate, as it's called, focused on the concept of artificial general intelligence, the notion of a machine capable of integrating a myriad of reasoning abilities approaching human levels. While the previous debate featured a number of AI scholars, Friday's meet-up drew participation by 16 participants from a much wider gamut of professional backgrounds. In addition to numerous computer scientists and AI luminaries, the program included legendary linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, computational neuroscientist Konrad Kording, and Canadian parliament member Michelle Rempel Garner. Also: AI's true goal may no longer be intelligence Marcus was once again joined by his co-host, Vincent Boucher of Montreal.ai. The debate ran longer than planned. The full 3.5 hours can be viewed on the YouTube page for the debate. The debate Web site is agidebate dot com. In addition, you may want to follow the hashtag #agidebate. NYU professor emeritus and AI gadfly Gary Marcus resumed his duties hosting the multi-scholar face-off. Marcus started things off with a slide show of a "very brief history of AI," tongue firmly in cheek. Marcus said that contrary to enthusiasm in the decade following the landmark ImageNet success, the "promise" of machines doing various things had not paid off. He featured reference to his own New Yorker article throwing cold water on the matter.

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