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

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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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