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Curious conversations: are Elon Musk and Bill Gates the Promethean Titans of our era? Songs, books, movies, plays, podcasts... why do we endlessly seek out new stories? This week we're curating articles that explore this cultural and social phenomenon to try and understand it. Adrienne Mayor writing in Aeon Magazine delved into the Greek myths and finds half-human soldiers, robot servants and eagle drones. Could an Artificial Intelligence learn from their stories, she asks.