Gemini 3 has just been released and is leading on a whole range of different benchmarks, contrary to earlier predictions that scaling would hit a wall.

Progress in large language models, multimodal models, agentic AI, drug discovery acceleration, and robotics integration represent the major shifts in AI over the past year, moving beyond large language models as the center of gravity toward agentic systems.

Agents can be placed into simulated worlds to explore with curiosity as the main motivator, enabling discovery without pre-specified goals—many major inventions were made without the invention in mind, suggesting this is a valuable approach.

Demis believes consciousness evolved as an advantage to understanding the internal state of others, which humans then applied inward to model their own minds—a form of 'recursive self-modeling'.

Some users are already experiencing problems with AI chatbots, including self-radicalization through conversation spirals with overly sympathetic systems that reinforce rather than challenge user beliefs.