The speaker discusses how understanding the human brain and the tricks it uses to understand the physical world can lead to advancements in AI systems. They also mention their mission to apply computer science to better understand the human genome, health, and disease.
The butterfly effect is the idea that a small change in one place can lead to big differences in a later state. It is difficult to predict the long-term outcome of a system based on its current state due to the many complex factors that can affect it.
The podcast discusses if the universe could be a simulation and the difference between the way computers store information and the human genome stores information.
The speaker highlights advancements in the field of artificial intelligence and neural networks and how they can be applied to better understand the human genome, health, disease, and brain function. The goal is to eventually use this understanding to create artificial intelligence that supersedes human capabilities.
The more we discover about how the human brain perceives the physical world, the more we can use that knowledge to improve AI systems to better understand both the external world and our internal selves. From the evolution of photoreceptors to the ability to engineer images using pixels, our understanding of how we perceive the world continues to evolve.