Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication - Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify

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Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode.

(00:00) - Introduction (00:49) - What Turing got wrong (06:13) - MIT Center for Bits and Atoms (19:20) - Digital logic (25:56) - Self-assembling robots (36:24) - Digital fabrication (47:19) - Self-reproducing machine (55:05) - Trash and fabrication (1:00:01) - Lab-made bioweapons (1:04:16) - Genome (1:16:07) - Quantum computing (1:20:39) - Microfluidic bubble computation (1:26:00) - Maxwell's demon (1:34:46) - Consciousness (1:41:46) - Cellular automata (1:46:19) - Universe is a computer (1:51:04) - Advice for young people (2:00:22) - Meaning of life

Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify.

Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode.

(00:00) - Introduction (00:49) - What Turing got wrong (06:13) - MIT Center for Bits and Atoms (19:20) - Digital logic (25:56) - Self-assembling robots (36:24) - Digital fabrication (47:19) - Self-reproducing machine (55:05) - Trash and fabrication (1:00:01) - Lab-made bioweapons (1:04:16) - Genome (1:16:07) - Quantum computing (1:20:39) - Microfluidic bubble computation (1:26:00) - Maxwell's demon (1:34:46) - Consciousness (1:41:46) - Cellular automata (1:46:19) - Universe is a computer (1:51:04) - Advice for young people (2:00:22) - Meaning of life