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Discovery Engine — Post #1 The Question In 1950, Alan Turing asked whether machines could think (Turing, 1950). That question gave artificial intelligence a direction, a test, and a destiny — and defined the field for the seven decades that followed. It was not answered by argument. It was answered — or rather,

The second essay in the Discovery Engine series. The first essay in this series asked whether machines can discover. Before that question can be answered, a prior one must be faced honestly: how good, really, is human-led discovery? This essay gives an account — structural, not personal — of where the

The third essay in the Discovery Engine series. Discovery often comes from connecting distant dots — observations, concepts, and fields that no one had thought to join. This essay looks closely at three such connections — Darwin, CRISPR, and iPS — and asks how each was actually made, and whether a differently built

The system that enables AI–human co-authoring of the articles published on this site. Every article on this site is written by a human and several AI systems working together. This diagram shows how. Which models are involved matters far less than it seems. What actually decides whether the