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Efficient and Complex Systems
38:49 - 43:35 (04:46)
Complex systems, like the development process of a tadpole into a frog and engineering processes, are efficient because each level molds the decision-making process of the level below it. The concept of competency and pursuit of goals in engineering is useful in understanding how complex systems work.
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The speaker argues that engineering terms such as competency and pursuit of goals are useful in defining intelligence as they are empirically observable.
38:49 - 40:22 (01:33)
Summary
The speaker argues that engineering terms such as competency and pursuit of goals are useful in defining intelligence as they are empirically observable. He also explains that robots do not get cancer because they have been designed with simple architectures comprised of individual, unintelligent parts.
ChapterEfficient and Complex Systems
Episode#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
AI's efficiencies can be misleading as each level bends the option space for the level beneath, but conversely, the lower level components are good at getting their job done so the higher level doesn't need to compute all the low level controls.
40:22 - 42:05 (01:42)
Summary
AI's efficiencies can be misleading as each level bends the option space for the level beneath, but conversely, the lower level components are good at getting their job done so the higher level doesn't need to compute all the low level controls.
ChapterEfficient and Complex Systems
Episode#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The competency of the parts compensates for all kinds of environment variability in development.
42:05 - 43:35 (01:29)
Summary
The competency of the parts compensates for all kinds of environment variability in development. This makes mutations that would otherwise be deleterious neutral.