Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #225

Jeffrey Shainline is a physicist at NIST. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Jeff’s Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rnHpY3YAAAAJ
Jeff’s NIST Page: https://www.nist.gov/people/jeff-shainline

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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:44 – How are processors made?
20:02 – Are engineers or physicists more important
22:31 – Super-conductivity
38:18 – Computation
42:55 – Computation vs communication
46:36 – Electrons for computation and light for communication
57:19 – Neuromorphic computing
1:22:11 – What is NIST?
1:25:28 – Implementing super-conductivity
1:33:08 – The future of neuromorphic computing
1:52:41 – Loop neurons
1:58:57 – Machine learning
2:13:23 – Cosmological evolution
2:20:32 – Cosmological natural selection
2:37:53 – Life in the universe
2:45:40 – The rare Earth hypothesis

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