Neil Gershenfeld
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1,202 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
Neil Gershenfeld’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're now just at the edge of assembling the transistors to make the circuits.
We can assemble the micro parts to make the micro robots.
We can assemble the bigger robots.
And in the coming years, we'll be patching together all of those scales.
Yes.
And the but to the yes but is, let me clarify two things.
One is that immediately...
raises King Charles fear of gray goo, of runaway mutant self-reproducing things.
The reason why there are many things I can tell you to worry about, but that's not one of them, is if you want things to autonomously self-reproduce and take over the world, that means they need to compete with nature on using the resources of nature, of water and sunlight.
And in light of everything I'm describing, biology knows everything I told you.
Every single thing I explain, biology already knows how to do.
What I'm describing isn't new for biology, it's new for non-biological systems.
So in the digital era, the economic win ended up being centralized, the big platforms.
in this world of machines that can make machines.
I'm asked, for example, what's the killer opportunity?
Who's gonna make all the money?
Who to invest in?
But if the machine can make the machine, it's not a great business to invest in the machine.
In the same way that if you can think globally but produce locally, then the way the technology goes out into society isn't a function of central control but is fundamentally distributed.
Now, that raises an obvious kind of concern, which is, well, doesn't this mean you could make bombs and guns and all of that?
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