The Missing Clock: Why Intelligence Needs Time
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This episode explores the concept of timekeeping in living organisms and its absence in modern AI systems.
Send us Fan Mail Every living organism on Earth keeps time. Not metaphorically. Not approximately. From single-celled cyanobacteria running a three-protein molecular oscillator to the nested circadian hierarchies governing mammalian physiology, intrinsic timekeeping is not a feature of complex life. It is a prerequisite for life itself. Modern AI has no such clock. Transformers encode position, not time. Recurrent networks carry state but generate no rhythm. Reinforcement learning agents step...
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