Sara Imari Walker

I mean, I think that that's pretty obvious that, you know, there's a huge amount of debate about the nature of intelligence in these artificial algorithms.

I certainly think that they're life, but I think they're life in the sense that the lineage of information necessary to train a large language model, for example, you know, requires a planet to evolve something like us and evolve language and then enough data about that language to train the model.

So it's a direct descendant, like you were saying, like, you know, our technologies are babies now.

But so there's that part of it.

But I think I don't know.

I totally lost my train of thought.

This is very funny.

It went two ways and I don't know which way I want to go.

That's very funny.

Yeah.

What was your question again?

I'm so sorry.

Yeah.

And you were asking about quantum information.

Yeah.

So I think there's like a sort of subtlety here when you're talking about artificial intelligence and whether it could compete with natural intelligence, right?

So this is sort of the canonical debate about the nature of artificial intelligence.

But I think we really underestimate what chemistry can do.

And I think some of the most powerful computers on this planet are still chemical.

And if we actually understand chemistry better, you know, with these kind of new digital chemistry technologies, the kind of compute we can get out of chemistry might actually outcompete silicon in the long run.