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Yes, GPT-4 might be a stochastic parrot, but if so, perhaps the Biggest Question is to prove that humans are more than that.

Peter Lee • The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond

Microbes have figured out all sorts of ways to harness Gibbs free energy by combining various gases, liquids, and rocks.

David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter

Combining Research, Data, and Product Expertise

Stephen Wendel • Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics

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Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management

Cutting-edge gene-editing tools, for example, are completely different from what they were just five years ago.

Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Bits are thrilling, but when it comes to the overall economy, it’s all about atoms.

Chris Anderson • Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

“It was science fiction more than computer science,”

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

These are worlds that will be revealed not by better instruments but by new models and frameworks that allow us to see the familiar world in unfamiliar ways—to transform domains described into domains rigorously quantified and observations informally sensed into those formally understood.