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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Future of Intelligence

The 1952 NC mill was subtractive. You remove material. 3D printing additive and there's a couple claims to the invention of 3D printing that's closer to what's called net shape which is you don't have to cut away the material you don't need. And so instead of printing and cutting technologically it's this transition to assembling and disassembling. Going back to Shannon and Von Neumann going back to the ribosome 4 billion years ago. Now you come to malevolent.

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