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The Future of AI and Education: ChatGPT Takes the World by Storm
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The Future of AI and Education: ChatGPT Takes the World by Storm

By Brian Zhao  (Image: creative common license) Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT quickly became the world’s newest sensation, amassing over 100 million users as of January 2023. Millions of people spanning various industries recognized its potential for revolutionizing our workstyles.  The language model chatbot powered by artificial intelligence technology captured everyone’s attention mainly due to its ability to have human-like conversations with users and provide detailed and accurate responses.   Some of its capabilities include answering questions, writing essays, compiling poems, translating languages, telling jokes, and writing code, among many other endless applications that users have tested. However, providing expert-level syntax, gram...
From Traditional Medicine to Digital Health: How China is Transforming Healthcare
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From Traditional Medicine to Digital Health: How China is Transforming Healthcare

By Anton Kozyrev (image: iStock) In January of 2023, fresh demographic data from the People’s Republic of China caused a stir. For the first time in 60 years, China’s population had experienced a contraction, with its 2022 population falling by 850,000 from that of 2021. While the phenomenon of deaths exceeding births is a common expectation for many developed nations around the globe, China’s situation poses unique challenges. For the most part, experts suggest that this demographic change is the result of government policies, including the well-known “One Child Policy.” The government ended this policy in 2016, switching to a strategy of encouraging couples to have two children. However, there is little evidence to suggest that this strategy has been successful in mitigati...
Russia-Ukraine War Skyrockets Nickel Prices
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Russia-Ukraine War Skyrockets Nickel Prices

By Brian Zhao  (Image: creative common license) The Russian-Ukraine conflict has caused a number of supply chain disruptions in addition to obstructing the flow of goods, driving up product shortages, and creating severe food crises around the world. Even nickel, a relatively available commodity, has undergone unprecedented price changes.  In March 2022, the London Metal Exchange suspended nickel trading due to its wild fluctuations caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which sent the market surging well over the $100,000 per tonne mark. The drastic increase of this raw material could wreak havoc for several industries that nickel supply is important for, such as stainless steel, magnets and alloys, electronic devices, medical equipment, and energy and power gener...