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What Biologists can learn from LLMs?

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, over the last year, have fundamentally changed the way we interact with technology, due to their ability to generate grammatically accurate content in multiple languages from simple prompts...

Biology as Clockwork

The behavior of a wind-up (clockwork) toy is generally fairly predictable when you put it on a flat terrain and let it go.  Maybe it goes straight indefinitely, or maybe it turns about-face after a pre-defined number of steps.  But if we put obstacles in its path...