{"id":78141,"date":"2018-04-30T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/stuff-3-0-the-era-of-programmable-matter"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:14:14","slug":"stuff-3-0-the-era-of-programmable-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/stuff-3-0-the-era-of-programmable-matter","title":{"rendered":"Stuff 3.0: The Era of Programmable Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stuff-3-0-the-era-of-programmable-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a few seconds flat, you\u2019ve gone from a neatly-equipped office to a home cinema\u2026all within the same four walls. Who needs more than one room?<\/p>\n<p>This is the dream of those who work on \u201cprogrammable matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/space.mit.edu\/home\/tegmark\/\">his recent book<\/a> about AI, Max Tegmark makes a distinction between three different levels of computational sophistication for organisms. Life 1.0 is single-celled organisms like bacteria; here, hardware is indistinguishable from software. The behavior of the bacteria is encoded into its DNA; it cannot learn new things.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/04\/29\/stuff-3-0-the-era-of-programmable-matter\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=62ca77832f-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-62ca77832f-58220945\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/04\/29\/stuff-3&#45;0-the-era-...f-58220945<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few seconds flat, you\u2019ve gone from a neatly-equipped office to a home cinema\u2026all within the same four walls. Who needs more than one room? This is the dream of those who work on \u201cprogrammable matter.\u201d In his recent book about AI, Max Tegmark makes a distinction between three different levels of computational sophistication [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78343,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78141\/revisions\/78343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}