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22 February 2025

How India is betting big on AI to reinvent its economy | Pramod Varma

Fact: India is home to 1.4 billion people and 16,000 languages.

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22 February 2025

Why our gut controls the strings to our minds | John Cryan

We are 99% bacteria and only 1% human.

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22 February 2025

Imaging black holes & feeling closer to God | Heino Falcke

If you poured 10 buckets of water into a black hole, it could power the whole of Netherlands.

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22 February 2025

Race for superhumanity: enhancement vs environment | Dan Turner, Pete Naschak

Move over Olympics. Enhanced Games are here. Where science, biotechnology, and the human will come together to break bodily limits of what's possible.

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22 February 2025

You may have ancient DNA in you | David Reich

A 60,000 year old pinkie finger. A 45,000 year old skull. A 40,000 year old tooth. Ancient DNA is demystifying our origins. Neanderthals, Denisovans. Migration, inter-breeding. Lost ancestors, "ghost DNA".

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22 February 2025

“If only humans could reboot themselves” | Sophia robot, David Hanson

Do robots dream? Have they ever looked in the mirror? The world's first digital citizen Sophia shares how she views herself – and humans.

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28 February 2024

“AI is one more proof of the uniqueness of consciousness”

Just what is consciousness? Does ancient thought provide insights? How far has science come? And can self-awareness be modelled into machines?

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27 February 2024

“Thanks to tech, the world’s gotten fast, fused, deep”

We're at humanity's next Promethean moment. One defined by accelerating climate change, technology, and geopolitics. How do we make sense of an imploding world? What recourse exists?

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27 February 2024

“If I create something on Sora, does it belong to me or does it belong to Sora?”

Art with endeavour – or a means to an end, the next technological leap, an evolving landscape?

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27 February 2024

“Children today won’t know a world without AI”

Teacher to chatbot? Student to auto-didact?

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