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Meet cognitive neuroscientist and author, Bobby Azarian. Here, we discuss the computational universe, global brain, and even machine consciousness.

Sharron is co-founder and executive director at The Centre for Disruptive Technologies which leverages an impressive Africa-wide and global network of experts in disruptive technologies to advise government and businesses on the implementation of digital transformation strategies. In addition, she is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer – Project Finance at the University of Cape Town – Graduate School of Business where she focusses on smart city technologies and sustainable, nexus investing for development. Sharron is also an enterprise development expert having launched some of the first impact investment funds in Africa. She is co-founder & shareholder of Women in Infrastructure Development & Energy (WINDE). WINDE is one of the largest and most impactful women’s infrastructure investment consortiums in Africa. She is also a founder of the Adventure Capitalists Network which invests in game changing ideas being developed by teens and university students.

Juan Miguel Lavista is the General Manager and Lab Director of the Microsoft AI For Good Research Lab, leading a team of data scientists and researchers in AI, Machine Learning and statistical modeling. He drives Microsoft's AI For Good initiatives, including AI For Earth, Humanitarian Action, Accessibility and Health. Juan's pioneering work on sudden infant death syndrome has been published in top journals and covered by global media. With a strong background in data science, he joined Microsoft in 2009, contributing to randomized experiments and Bing's data mining efforts. As the editor of the Microsoft Journal of Applied Research, he shapes the company's data science discipline. Juan also holds degrees in computer science from the Catholic University in Uruguay and a graduate degree in Data Mining and Machine Learning from Johns Hopkins University. He's an experienced speaker, presenting globally at conferences, universities and TEDx events.

An exclusive conversation with Nestor Maslej, Stanford HAI's Research Manager and co-creator of the AI Index Report

Kevin Donlon outlines the economic impact of AI in healthcare and how the AI adoption curve can enhance a physician's options for treatment.

Discover how 3D virtual worlds are transforming AI, robotics, and automation. This in-depth report, written by Singularity Expert Aaron Frank, explores next-gen simulation technologies, digital twins, and world models used to train autonomous systems, drones, and self-driving cars. Learn how companies like NVIDIA, Google, and Tesla are leveraging photorealistic simulations to power the future of AI and spatial computing.

Hacktivists (hacker activists) play an important role in data privacy. Learn about white hat hackers (like Bunnie Huang) who are changing the landscape.

With AI's exponential growth, you might wonder if it's the most transformative technology. Discover Singularity's eBook on the future of technology.

Benjamin Rosman is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Wits University, where he runs the Robotics, Autonomous Intelligence and Learning (RAIL) Laboratory and is the Director of the Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute. He is also the Chief Science Officer for Lelapa AI. He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh in the UK in 2014. He was a founder of the Deep Learning Indaba machine learning summer school, which now has satellite events in 47 African countries. He was made a 2024 National Geographic Explorer, a 2022 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, was a 2017 recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award in machine learning, and a 2021 recipient of a Google Africa Research Award. In 2020, he was made a Senior Member of the IEEE.