Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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And at the end of that developmental program, you have five fingers.
So you are stored not as a body plan,
but as a growth plan.
And there's two reasons for that.
One reason is just compression.
Billions of genes can place trillions of cells, but the much deeper one is evolution doesn't randomly perturb.
Almost anything you did randomly in the genome would be fatal
or inconsequential, but not interesting.
But when you modify things in these developmental programs, you go from like webs for swimming to fingers, or you go from walking to wings for flying.
It's a space in which search is interesting.
So this is the heart of the success of AI.
In part, it was the scaling we talked about a while ago.
And in part, it was the representations
for which search is effective.
AI has found good representations.
It hasn't found new ways to search, but it's found good representations of search.
And so the developmental programs in the genome
beautifully encapsulate the lessons of AI.
And it's molecular intelligence.
It's AI embodied in our genome.
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