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Lex Fridman PodcastNeil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380
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- Released
- May 28, 2023
- Duration
- 2h 7m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE LINKS: Neil's Website: http://ng.cba.mit.edu/ MIT Center for Bits and Atoms: https://cba.mit.edu/ Fab Foundation: https://fabfoundation.org/ Fab Lab community: https://fablabs.io/ Fab Academy: https://fabacademy.org/ Fab City: https://fab.city/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 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 SOCIAL:
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SPEAKERS
Neil Gershenfeld
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Neil Gershenfeld and Lex Fridman, Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380 explores Neil Gershenfeld Envisions Self-Replicating Fabricators Reshaping Life, Work, Civilization Neil Gershenfeld explains how current computing rests on a flawed abstraction that separates bits from atoms, and argues that true progress comes when computation, communication, and fabrication are unified in physical reality.
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