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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Automating Engineering of Nano Materials
In the 60s, Joshua Leidenberg and some really important people did this that made an AI to try and guess if organic molecules in the mass spectrometer were alien or not. They failed because they didn't have assembly theory. When I found the AI not working for the dendral project, I suddenly realized I wasn't totally insane. So what it does is it's a basically like a computer. It squirts a liquid with gold in it in a test tube and it adds some reducing agents as electrons to make the gold turn into a nanoparticle. The robot has a mind where in a simulation, it randomly generates nanoparticles and the plasmon, the color that
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