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Amid South Africa’s perfect storm of few universities, racial inequities and economic disparities, AI students find support in a not-so-grassroots grassroots movement. MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa—The University of Johannesburg might have selected Joburg, rather than the bush, for the most recent Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research focused on human-centered AI. After all, the city would have offered convenience for attendees from around the continent and beyond. Also, humans are decidedly not at the center of the Gauteng Province’s red-dirt landscape.

A sweetish suite of machine translations of a pseudo-Swedish paragraph concocted on a whim by Douglas Hofstadter. The resulting gobbledygook reveals the true zombie-like nature of these highly vaunted and often virtuosic programs.

Contributors to the January 2024 issue of TD magazine offer their book recommendations.

While 2023 saw the closest thing to a “return to normalcy” since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, actual COVID numbers and hospitalizations were reported to be rising for the first few months of the year before dropping to unprecedented lows. With a drastic decrease in demand for on-site tests and vaccines, the South Peninsula COVID-19 testing and vaccine site closed its doors, giving way to at-home testing and treatment at the regular hospital facilities.

The list compiled by artists and partners of The Arts Partnership includes several local titles.