Years ago at Disney Imagineering I built a novel sensor to make almost anything interactive. As a test you can put a single wire in the soil, and touching a leaf could play a note. I called this project Botanicus Interacticus.
The physical world is full of signals and hidden behaviors, and we've never learned to read and understand them. That's why we built Archetype AI. Newton, our foundation model, finally lets us listen.
NOW - Anthropic co-founder says there is a "real possibility that AI will displace human labor at a very large scale," and that supporting those people "will be a moral imperative of historic proportions."
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.