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In contrast to Asimov's robots, “AI” is not a robotic uprising but rather an energy revolution—this energy revolution must ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a tree makes in a few thick branches versus many thin ones. Trees have evolved ...