The speaker's practical goal is to build useful systems, not to recreate animals.

“some of the learning online so i can definitely agree with you on that basically i would say i'm a lot more kind of like practically minded i don't come at it from the perspective of like let's build animals i come from from perspective of like let's build useful things so i have a hard hat on and i'm just observing that look we're not going to do evolution because i don't know how to do that but it does turn out we can build these ghost spirit-like entities by imitating internet documents this works and it's actually kind of like”