Anatomy & Physiology

Vestigial Neurons: Mapping AI's Hidden Dead Weight

New interpretability research reveals transformer models carry vestigial neurons that fire constantly yet do little—until pruning them breaks abilities silently.

The Phantom Limb of Context in AI Models Explained

Phantom limb of context in AI models—why systems 'feel' deleted information, how residual activations trigger eerie hallucinations, revealed.

We Classify Every Organism on Earth. Why Not AI?

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We have catalogued over 2 million species of life on Earth, from blue whales to gut bacteria, each slotted into a precise evolutionary tree. Yet the most rapidly evolving "organisms" of the 21st century—large language models—remain unmapped, undifferentiated, and poorly understood. This piece proposes a radical reframing: treating AI systems as a living kingdom worthy of formal taxonomy.

AI democratized the knowledge gap

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For centuries, understanding how the human body works was a privilege reserved for those with access to elite medical schools, expensive textbooks, and exclusive labs. Today, a curious teenager with a smartphone can explore the inner workings of the heart, brain, and bloodstream as deeply as a first-year med student. This is the quiet revolution AI has sparked—and it's changing who gets to understand the human body.

Treating AI Like a Species, Not a Product

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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — one creature or many? Biology already solved this exact classification problem.