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Open Questions
Unsettled questions in science, AI, biotech and law: what the evidence shows, the competing hypotheses, and an original analysis built for each article.
Open Questions
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Why Does Sex Exist? The Twofold Cost and the Case for Sex
Asexual females should outbreed sexual ones two to one, yet sex dominates complex life. This article weighs the evidence for the leading…
Open Questions
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Can AI Be Conscious? Scoring Chatbots, Agents and Robots
Fourteen indicator properties from the science of consciousness, turned into a scored checklist and applied to a chatbot, a language agent and…
Open Questions
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Grokking in Neural Networks: Why Generalization Arrives Late
Networks sometimes memorize their training data and only generalize thousands of steps later. This article weighs the competing explanations for grokking and…
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Open Questions: A Series on What Science and Law Have Not Settled
A new x9m8 series on unsettled questions in AI, consciousness, evolution, biotech and law, each with the evidence, the rival answers and…