Neri Oxman

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature · 1 Sep 2023 podcast

Exactly.

So I think of it as large molecule models.

And those large molecule models, of course, large language models are based on Google and search engines and so on and so forth.

And we don't have this data currently.

And part of our mission is to do just that.

Trying to quantify and understand the language that exists across all kingdoms of life, across all five kingdoms of life.

And if we can understand that language, is there a way for us to first make sense of it, find logic in it, and then generate certain computational tools that empower nature to build better crops, to increase the level of biodiversity?

In the company, we're constantly asking, what does nature want?

Like, what does nature want from a compute environment?

Yeah.

So we keep coming back to this answer of nature wants to increase information, but decrease entropy, right?

So find order, but constantly increase the information scale, right?

And this is true for what our work also tries to do, because we're constantly trying to fight against the dimensional mismatch between things made and things grown, right?

And as designers, we are educated to think in X, Y, and Z, and that's pretty much where architectural education ends.

And biological education begins.

So in reducing that dimensional mismatch, we're missing out on opportunities to create things made as if grown.

But in the natural environment, we're asking, can we provide nature with these extra dimensions?

And again, I'm not sure what nature wants.

But I'm curious as to what happens when you provide these tools to the natural environments, obviously with responsibility, obviously with control, obviously with ethics and moral code.

But is there a world in which nature can help fix itself using those tools?

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