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May 31, 2023

Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380

Posted by in categories: alien life, military, particle physics, quantum physics, robotics/AI

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OUTLINE:
0:00 — Introduction.
1:29 — What Turing got wrong.
6:53 — MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.
20:00 — Digital logic.
26:36 — Self-assembling robots.
37:04 — Digital fabrication.
47:59 — Self-reproducing machine.
55:45 — Trash and fabrication.
1:00:41 — Lab-made bioweapons.
1:04:56 — Genome.
1:16:48 — Quantum computing.
1:21:19 — Microfluidic bubble computation.
1:26:41 — Maxwell’s demon.
1:35:27 — Consciousness.
1:42:27 — Cellular automata.
1:46:59 — Universe is a computer.
1:51:45 — Advice for young people.
2:01:02 — Meaning of life.

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