In April and May, I was part of two panels. One at Microsoft’s head office and the other at Operation Medical School (OMS) at the University of Toronto. In both cases, I spoke to a room full of young innovators about innovation in technology and how youth can strive to make an impact by working with their passions.

Big thanks to Microsoft, Fair Chance Learning, and OMS for hosting such insightful sessions!

During the summer, I will be continuing my Neural Network research at Kimia Lab while working on an exciting new research project: an image search engine for pathologists that expedites the cancer diagnosis process and increases diagnosis accuracy.

Come back next newsletter for some exciting updates!

My research into creating new Artificial Neural Networks to behave more like the human brain made me realize that human-level AI is a gray area which is mostly discussed at only the surface level.

In September, I will be speaking at me Convention, a large tech conference in Frankfurt, Germany, about the technical and social implications of human-level AI.

I consolidated my research into an effective talk that will showcase the work being done to achieve human-level AI (including my research), what it might look like, the new technological possibilities that human-level AI will introduce, as well as the dangers that may arise and what we must do to prepare for our intelligent future.

I believe that these are the topics we must be discussing and the questions we must be asking now, if we want to ensure a positive future for humanity!

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