The second fabrication facility will span the equivalent of nine football fields and is expected to be completed by 2030.
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Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals
“We’re not gods, we’re just storytelling animals.”
Will Storr said that to me in March 2022. ChatGPT launched eight months later.
Since then we’ve built machines that do one thing astonishingly well: tell us stories. Fluent ones. Confident ones. Stories in which we are, conveniently, the hero.
That should worry us more than it does.
Will’s argument in The Science of Storytelling is that the human brain is not a truth engine. It’s a hero maker. It quietly edits reality so we come out looking right, good, and justified. Now pair that brain with an #AI trained on billions of our stories and tuned to keep us engaged.
Who’s writing whom?
Proactive AI for Superintelligent Agents
What if AI stopped waiting for you to tell it what to do—and started working ahead?
We’re moving past the era of typing prompts into chatbots and waiting around. AI is undergoing a massive shift from passive assistant to proactive teammate. Here is what that looks like: 👇
From Waiting Around to Working Ahead: The Evolution of Proactive AI https://research.google/pubs/proactive-ai-for-superintelligent-agents/
For a long time, interacting with artificial intelligence has felt a bit like talking to an incredibly smart, but intensely passive, digital assistant. You type a prompt, it gives you an answer, and then it sits in absolute silence until you talk to it again. It has no memory of what you did five minutes ago unless you remind it, no clock ticking in its head, and no ambition to do anything on its own.
The cutting edge of AI research is shifting past this “reactive” model. Instead of waiting for human commands, the next generation of AI is designed to be proactive—acting more like a diligent human coworker who anticipates needs, monitors environments, and handles tasks behind the scenes.
Here is what that shift looks like:
1. The Three Tiers of AI Evolution.
Your Eyes Could Reveal How Fast You’re Aging, Study of Nearly 30,000 Scans Suggests
We celebrate our birthdays on the same date each year, but alongside our chronological age – the number of years we’ve been alive – we also have a biological age that reflects how quickly our bodies are succumbing to wear and tear.
Working out someone’s biological age is more difficult than counting backward to a date of birth, though we are getting better at it.
Knowing this information can help in a variety of ways when it comes to health, including spotting serious problems earlier on.
