#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
from Lex Fridman Podcast
by Lex Fridman
Published: Sun May 28 2023
Show Notes
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()– Introduction
()– What Turing got wrong
()– MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
()– Digital logic
()– Self-assembling robots
()– Digital fabrication
()– Self-reproducing machine
()– Trash and fabrication
()– Lab-made bioweapons
()– Genome
()– Quantum computing
()– Microfluidic bubble computation
()– Maxwell’s demon
()– Consciousness
()– Cellular automata
()– Universe is a computer
()– Advice for young people
()– Meaning of life