Rizwan Virk

I don't know if you've ever heard of that.

John von Neumann was one of the pioneers of computer science.

He was a mathematician.

Today, the architecture we use in our computers is called the von Neumann architecture.

There's a CPU, there's memory.

He was a brilliant guy, but he came up with this idea that if we were to send out probes, what we would do is we would have these machines that are capable of replicating themselves.

So we would send out with a bunch of raw materials, and then they could assemble those raw materials together.

into new machines.

And those machines would then reproduce from the raw materials and they would go out and they could colonize the galaxy for us potentially.

I don't know if you ever read Rendezvous with Rama, which was an Arthur C. Clarke novel.

In it, there's this weird cylinder-shaped object that comes into the solar system.

And they send some craft to figure out what is this.

And it's empty except for this giant ocean of random materials.

And then it starts to build.

That ocean actually has the raw materials that start to reassemble into things.

That was basically an illustration of the von Neumann machine idea.

I haven't played with the one that came out literally a few days ago.

Yeah, I saw that video and there were other ones where it was translating in real time or one AI was talking to the other AI and it was describing.

Now, we have to be a little bit careful because having been in the tech industry, usually these are like canned demos, right?

And when you actually use the product, it's not quite that good.