Feedback has spent some time sifting through 2025's key scientific achievements to come up with a range of weird and wonderful (and less wonderful) winners for our inaugural Backsies awards Being a New Scientist reader, you are probably savvy enough to realise that end-of-year roundups are written weeks ahead of time. This particular summation was drafted on 1 December, just as Feedback was preparing to spend 24 days avoiding hearing Wham's Last Christmas and trying to persuade Feedback Jr to make their mind up on what they want for their main present. Anything radically silly that may have happened after that date will have to wait until next year. Truly, 2025 has been rich in all the things Feedback is interested in. We learned about fascinating proposals like nuking the seabed to stop climate change, a notion that went straight into our Do Not Recommend pile.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly tools like OpenAI's popular ChatGPT, is reshaping the landscape of computer science research. Used wisely, these tools can boost the productivity of a computer research scientist. This paper provides an exploration of the diverse applications of ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies in computer science academic research, making recommendations about the use of Generative AI to make more productive the role of the computer research scientist, with the focus of writing new research papers. We highlight innovative uses such as brainstorming research ideas, aiding in the drafting and styling of academic papers and assisting in the synthesis of state-of-the-art section. Further, we delve into using these technologies in understanding interdisciplinary approaches, making complex texts simpler, and recommending suitable academic journals for publication. Significant focus is placed on generative AI's contributions to synthetic data creation, research methodology, and mentorship, as well as in task organization and article quality assessment. The paper also addresses the utility of AI in article review, adapting texts to length constraints, constructing counterarguments, and survey development. Moreover, we explore the capabilities of these tools in disseminating ideas, generating images and audio, text transcription, and engaging with editors. We also describe some non-recommended uses of generative AI for computer science research, mainly because of the limitations of this technology.

Advancements in today's world are a result of interdisciplinary research across various fields of science and technology, and Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a significant role in shaping today's research. The power of AI in healthcare lies in its ability to process and make sense of an enormous amount of data in a considerably short amount of time. The use of AI in healthcare has various applications ranging from getting a better understanding of human biology at a genetic level to maintaining patient data to increase the hospital's functioning for efficiently understanding a person's emotional state. AI is reforming and shaping modern healthcare through algorithms and devices that can forecast, assimilate and take the required action. AI is actively being used across various areas of healthcare such as medical imaging, wearable sensors, guiding surgical robots, etc.

The new AI tool ChatGPT has inspired excitement and worry with its ability to instantly answer complex questions. In the days after its debut, people have discovered many ways it can make their lives easier -- including five we've found that rise above the rest. ChatGPT is a chat-based tool built by research lab OpenAI that answers questions with somewhat conversational dialogue. Its natural language abilities will delight anyone who's had to rephrase questions to get answers out of Siri or Alexa. The AI, trained on the vast tracts of text available on the internet, knows about information only through 2021.

Comviva has won the 2022 Global Artificial Intelligence Summit & Awards. Comviva won Best Use of Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics award.  The company has been recognized for their MobiLytix AI solution. Comviva, the global leader in providing digital solution, has won the 2022 Global Artificial Intelligence Summit & Awards. Comviva was recognized as the winner in the ‘Best Use of Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics. All the awards were announced at the 3rd edition of the GAISA summit held recently. The development of MobiLytix, a state-of-the-art AI/ML workbench for Service Providers. It is designed to...

Insurance Times' annual Tech and Innovation Awards were back last night (22 September 2022) at London's glamorous Royal Lancaster Hotel. Sponsored by Genasys, NIG, Carpenters Group and Sønr, the event showcased 22 different award categories recognising finalists that are going the extra mile to use technology to improve insurance processes and the customer experience. Opening the evening, Insurance Times editor Katie Scott said: "Just featuring on one of tonight's shortlists is an accolade in itself. "The same goes for the nominated categories – in particular Technology Champion of the Year. It's so inspiring to see how firms have really capitalised on accelerated technology and digital advancements made during the Covid-19 pandemic."

Pegasystems Inc., the low-code platform provider that builds agility into the world's leading organizations, announced its 2022 Pega Community Hackathon is now open for registration. In its third year, this global contest invites both professional and citizen developers to compete in building meaningful new apps that help solve real-world business and social problems that continue to emerge. Open to the entire Pega community, individuals and teams will leverage the intuitive, low-code Pega Platform environment throughout the development process -- from ideation and design to building and execution. Pega will offer extensive technology resources and mentorship, including office hours access with Pega experts for guidance and technical help. Registered participants can start building today and must complete their projects by October 7, 2022 with a solution concept and prototype that's ready for implementation.

AWARD ENTRY Best Use of Robotics in a Construction ProjectFor this category, we are looking for organisations that have successfully applied robotics to a construction project.That could be to aid …

Seventy-five percent of salespeople believe that they could not do their jobs as effectively without current technologies, according to our latest research. Technology is essential in a world that relies on it to evolve and enhance the way sales teams connect and follow up with leads. Now artificial intelligence (AI) has become a key piece of the puzzle. AI empowers sales and marketing teams to do more and do better, transforming any personalized marketing initiative into an intelligent and highly effective strategy that delivers results. Let's look at five AI-assisted technologies that are poised to bring the most significant results to B2B sales in 2022.

Top Irish innovators have been recognised at the third annual AI Awards, with STATSports, Fire1, ACI Worldwide and Infant Research Centre among this year's winners. The awards are designed to support the development of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) in Ireland, recognising how AI can be used ethically to help solve some of the biggest business, academic, environmental and health challenges facing our society today. University College Cork's Infant Centre, which uses deep learning to detect neonatal seizures, won an award for the best application of AI in an academic research body, beating competition from shortlisted entries Maynooth University for Terrain AI, and Tyndall National Institute for Wearable AI.It is the third time the centre has won the award. ACI Worldwide was named best application of AI in a Large Enterprise for its development of a patented technology to transform fraud prevention in the payment solutions sector. Also shortlisted in the category was Bank of Ireland, Zalando and Shutterstock.