Hey Conscious Church Fam

This week’s been… a lot.

Our car got stolen, baby #4 is nearly here, and I can feel the year beginning to wind down. I can’t believe it’s been almost a year of these weekly emails.

I hope you’ve found them helpful. They have been a fun ritual to commit to :)

In today's recap:

• AI system Aristotle solves a 30-year Erdős maths problem

• Kling launches an all-in-one video generation + editing model

Let’s dive in 👇

💭 Josh’s Musings

Tuesday morning wasn’t particularly fun. Finding out that we’d been burgled and the car had gone.

The inconvenience of it all just a few weeks before Christmas and baby #4 meant that my week was largely derailed with Police and CSI visits, communicating with insurance and now the hunt for a new vehicle.

Not ideal timing!

However.. The family is safe and God is good!

It’s just a bit frustrating as I fancy a tiramisu right now and I can’t nip out to grab one haha! (Probably for the best).

When you read this, we’d appreciate your prayers for peace, protection, and provision.

I’m anticipating one or two more of these weekly emails before taking a Christmas & Baby break until likely mid Jan.

I really hope you’ve enjoyed the emails this year.

I had a few grandiose plans, but I’m glad I didn’t fully set those in motion as the weekly emails were enough at this stage with 3 youngun’s and a full year of Design, Branding and Consulting. Some of which has come from connections on this email 🙂 

If you’ve liked the email this year and you want to show your appreciation, then you can buy me a coffee paypal.me/jbstannard 

I don’t have the official buymeacoffee link but my paypal above works fine.

I can do with stocking up for when the baby arrives.

I had a call with a ministry this week and one of the challenges or bottlenecks was that they had daily devotional/prayer content that they wanted going out on their web/email/social media daily.

Currently it is all manual, and time-consuming and monotonous. I had tested out a few potential workflows to suit them prior to the call, all fairly straightforward (not really AI as such, more just connecting apps and tools eg. Zapier). The look on the persons face when I showed that we could extract the data to a spreadsheet, upload and schedule to the website for months at a time in a matter of mintues was a joy to behold.

They were like ‘wow, I might actually be able to get on with the other parts of my job’.

That’s the beauty of technology. We all know the pain points and the challenges. But there are some really helpful ways to buy people back their time and allow them to operate in their sweetspot.

So that was a pretty cool end to the week.

Stay blessed, stay warm and have a mince pie.

🙌 Stay Curious, Stay Conscious, Stay Wild
Josh

LATEST NEWS

🤯 ARISTOTLE’S “VIBE PROOF” BREAKTHROUGH SHOCKS THE MATHS WORLD

Recap:

A new reasoning model called Aristotle, built by Harmonic, independently cracked a 30-year-old Erdős problem — something human mathematicians have been stuck on since the 1990s. It produced the solution in six hours, then formally verified it using Lean in under a minute.

The Details:

• Successfully solved a variant of Erdős Problem #124, open since the early ’90s

• Used natural-language proof exploration + upgraded reasoning engine

• Founder Vilad Tenev calls this the start of “vibe proving”: AI explores freely, then locks in the formal proof

• Follows Harmonic’s £120M raise and Aristotle’s IMO-gold-level performance

• Puts Harmonic directly alongside Google and OpenAI in mathematical reasoning

Conscious Take:

This is not “chatbot improvement.” This is AI participating in human discovery.

Mathematics is one of the purest forms of human reasoning, and an AI just jumped into the arena with a meaningful contribution. That means future discoveries (science, engineering, medicine, economics) can accelerate in ways we aren’t prepared for.

🎥 KLING LAUNCHES AN ALL-IN-ONE VIDEO GENERATION & EDITING MODEL

Recap:

Chinese company Kuaishou just unveiled Kling O1, a video model that handles both creation and editing inside one system — generating footage, swapping characters, restyling scenes, and altering environments with simple text instructions.

The Details:

• Accepts seven simultaneous inputs (images, video, references, subjects, prompts)

• Outputs 3–10 second clips at high fidelity

• Can remove people, change lighting, restyle environments via text

• Supports camera movement, multi-subject scenes, start/end frames

• Beats Google Veo 3.1 and Runway Aleph on several editing benchmarks

Conscious Take:

AI video is levelling up faster than any other creative domain right now.

The shift here isn’t just that Kling can generate video, many tools can. It’s the editing layer. The ability to keep the same characters, same environment, same continuity, while making granular changes… that’s a whole new category.

For churches and small creative teams? This could enable full storytelling workflows without expensive cameras or reshoots.

I used it this week to turn a static graphic I made into something with motion elements (and believe me when I tell you I’m an amateur when it comes to video related tools). It adhered to the prompt and the output was actually what I imagined. Which isn’t often the case!

Give us discernment. Give us peace. Give us the courage to be a non-anxious presence in an anxious world.

Stay conscious,

Josh

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