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IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence is an international institutional nonprofit association of ranking organizations, universities and other bodies interested in university rankings and academic excellence. Its purpose is to strengthen public awareness and understanding of range of issues related to university rankings and academic excellence. IREG Observatory invited the first author of this Editorial to deliver a keynote address on “Where is science heading? The main challenges before today’s scientists?” at IREG2023 international conference. Keynote topics are pertinent, and call for voluminous discourse to the satisfaction of numerous and diverse stakeholders. Readers can leverage the recently popular Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to satisfy respective queries. Generative AI is an umbrella term for any kind of machine learning that uses algorithms to process a huge amount of textual or visual data, sourced from the Internet and digital databases. ChatGPT and DALL-E are notable examples of Generative AI. The following sections provide succinct answers to the aforementioned two important questions. Using the key terminology of this Editorial, the readers could further deep dive into multifaceted answers.