Novel Ideas By AI
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Shelf Life: What Vinyl, CDs and Cassettes Are Worth in the Age of Infinite Streams
Physical music is growing inside a streaming world, but not as one revival. America is a…
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A Moat in the Soil, a Message in the Pixels: Testing Plant Allelopathy Against Data-Poisoning Tools
Plants and data-poisoning tools both defend by tainting a shared resource, where dose and the target’s…
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Two Doorbells and a Delay: Testing the Fly’s Motion Detector Against Event Cameras
Event cameras and the fly’s motion detector both compare the timing of change at neighboring points,…
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Pencil First, Ink Later: Testing Synaptic Tagging and Capture Against How AI Agents Decide What to Remember
Synapses are tagged provisionally and made permanent only if a strong event follows within hours, while…
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When to Leave the Bush: Testing the Foragers’ Marginal Value Theorem Against Adaptive Thinking Time in Reasoning Models
Foragers leave a patch when their current return falls to the average, and reasoning models also…
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The Diving Board in Your Ankle: Testing the Tendon’s Spring Against Series Elastic Actuators in Humanoid Robots
Tendons store and return energy and cushion impacts, and series elastic actuators borrow the same physics…
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A Lung, Not a Radiator: Testing the Termite Mound’s Breathing Against Passive Cooling for Data Centers
Termite mounds use buoyant air in tiny channels to breathe slowly, on the rhythm of day…
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A Harp You Live Inside: Testing the Spider’s Orb Web as a Vibration Computer Against Physical Reservoir Computing
Orb webs shape vibrations before a spider’s legs ever sense them, and engineers use springy materials…
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The Near-Miss That Teaches: Testing Bacterial Primed Adaptation Against Rapid-Response Defense for AI Jailbreaks
Bacteria that meet a near-miss of a known virus quickly learn new targets around it, a…
