The films

What Just Changed

For people not yet in the know: the week AGI was declared, the maths result the headlines got wrong, what happens when thinking gets a price tag, and the first robot most people will own. Every number on screen carries its source and a stamp saying what kind of claim it is, plus an AI lab's forecast of its own economy and the public argument over slowing down.

Labels belong to the people selling them. The pace is measurable, and the pace is the thing to build around.

• Three Words3:09 · The three words: artificial general intelligence.
• Ten Thousand Researchers on a Tuesday Afternoon2:54 · The result: forced case, prize declined.
• Airline Miles for Thinking2:45 · The price: thinking got too cheap to meter.
• A Car That Works for You While You Sleep2:36 · The shift: the machine works the night shift.
• The Pie Gets Enormous2:54 · The company's own extreme case: +32.4% growth a year, 17.9% of knowledge workers out of work.
• Should We Slow Down?2:54 · Steering, not stopping, and a correction the headlines missed.

• AI did not solve Navier–Stokes. It solved the forced case, and declined the prize.CORRECTION
• 833 million people are over 65 today; about 1.7 billion by 2054CORRECTION
• A benchmark that cost about $500,000 to pass now costs about $20SELF-REPORTED

I Want The Bites

Six stories from one week of AI news, each checked against a primary source before it reached the screen.

I want it real. Say who checked it.

• The Check2:09 · Checking is its own kind of first.
• The River of Gold2:09 · The price is a promise. The ride is real.
• Two Scoreboards2:09 · When the scoreboards disagree, read the fine print.
• The Critical Label2:09 · They wrote the warning label themselves. Read it.
• Ban It or Bless It2:09 · You can ban a company. You can't ban arithmetic.
• One More Spring2:09 · One more spring is a real number. Say who checked it.

• A weight-loss drug extended life in old female miceVERIFIED
• A machine checked the proof of Fermat's Last TheoremVERIFIED
• The lab wrote that its own model can evade its monitorsVERIFIED

Wiggle Your Toes

Four one-story films on what a week of announcements makes possible for an ordinary person — told as be, do, have.

Who holds the dial.

• Who Holds the Dial1:40
• The Unglamorous Step1:40
• A Gift to Humans Not Yet Born1:40
• The Receipts1:40

The Receipt

Humans and machines fail at the same point: the claim crosses the wire and the grounds for believing it do not.

Every claim with a receipt.

• No standard way exists to ask a machine for good evidenceVERIFIED
• Ten million machine-readable claims, one hundred thirty-nine usersVERIFIED

Both Hands

They told you it was happening to you. Look again: it is happening for you — if you give with one hand and receive with the other.

Both hands.

• Weight-loss drugs earn less than one quarter of AI chipsCORRECTION
• A startup hit 15% enrichment, five times reactor fuelCORRECTION
• Ninety minutes of generated video costs hundreds, not tens of thousandsCORRECTION
• A protein gel regrew tooth enamel in the laboratoryVERIFIED

We Could Be Solving Everything

A look back from after it worked: they told you there wasn't enough. Remember how slow it was.

And it is done.

The Interruptible

A data center that agrees to be switched off gets built first. Being interruptible is how you never get cut off.

I'm interruptible — so I never get cut off.

Two Hunters

Alone, a hunter gets the rabbit. Together, two hunters get the big one home. The AI race is a fear of not knowing, wearing a suit.

Trust in the unfolding.