Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380

This interview blew our minds. Listen to one of the most fascinating interviews of our time.

0:00 - Introduction 1:29 - What Turing got wrong 6:53 - MIT Center for Bits and Atoms 20:00 - Digital logic 26:36 - Self-assembling robots 37:04 - Digital fabrication 47:59 - Self-reproducing machine 55:45 - Trash and fabrication 1:00:41 - Lab-made bioweapons 1:04:56 - Genome 1:16:48 - Quantum computing 1:21:19 - Microfluidic bubble computation 1:26:41 - Maxwell's demon 1:35:27 - Consciousness 1:42:27 - Cellular automata 1:46:59 - Universe is a computer 1:51:45 - Advice for young people 2:01:02 - Meaning of life