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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
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A hundred petaflop computer, which is a current generation supercomputer, not quite the biggest ones, does 10 to the 17 ops per second. Your brain does about 10 to the 15 synapses and they run at about 100 hertz. So as of a year or two ago, the performance of a big computer matched a brain. In computational capacity, it's done. We've caught up. But there's eight orders of magnitude difference in the rate at which biology can build versus state-of-the-art manufacturing can build. that distinction is what we're talking about.
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