The last coauthor listed on this preprint is Michael Levin, who has a lot of other cool work.
In particular, this talk of his from NeurIPS 2018 includes fascinating biology research results, as well as musings on the future of biologically-inspired artificial intelligence.
I first found him through one of his presentations on YouTube. His other work is, to me, waaay more interesting and pertinent.
His lab's model of what cancer is and their effective treatment of it using bioelectricity could very well be a game-changer. All the stuff about making two-headed flatworms using the same mechanics, with no changes to the genome, is fascinating. One of the companies he's with is working on a device to re-grow amputated limbs in humans. It's some serious sci-fi stuff.
I chose to post this paper because text usually does better on HN than video, and it's an unexpected find in one of our basic tools. I fully expect his other research to show up here more often as it grows to fruition.
Anyone interested in checking out more of his work can browse this list of his papers, which goes all the way back to 1995. https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/
> Anyone interested in checking out more of his work can browse this list of his papers, which goes all the way back to 1995. https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/
Very delayed reply, but do you have any suggestions for which of his publications are most interesting so I can read those first?
In particular, this talk of his from NeurIPS 2018 includes fascinating biology research results, as well as musings on the future of biologically-inspired artificial intelligence.
https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg
HN discussion about the talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698