Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Exactly.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
So I think of it as large molecule models.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
And those large molecule models, of course, large language models are based on Google and search engines and so on and so forth.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
And we don't have this data currently.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
And part of our mission is to do just that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Trying to quantify and understand the language that exists across all kingdoms of life, across all five kingdoms of life.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
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?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
In the company, we're constantly asking, what does nature want?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Like, what does nature want from a compute environment?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Yeah.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
So we keep coming back to this answer of nature wants to increase information, but decrease entropy, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
So find order, but constantly increase the information scale, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
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?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
And as designers, we are educated to think in X, Y, and Z, and that's pretty much where architectural education ends.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
And biological education begins.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
So in reducing that dimensional mismatch, we're missing out on opportunities to create things made as if grown.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
But in the natural environment, we're asking, can we provide nature with these extra dimensions?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
And again, I'm not sure what nature wants.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
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.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#394 โ Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
But is there a world in which nature can help fix itself using those tools?