Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But while this might be a convenient setup for biology, it’s not at all clear that it’s even close to the best way to achieve the functionality we need. But you wouldn’t capture what the natural world in general can do—or that the tools that we’ve fashioned from the natural world can do.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 25, 2021

How do we achieve this? Let’s say that we’re trying to achieve the objective of having an efficient transportation system for carrying people around. No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. Will there still be “human-level descriptions” that involve numbers?

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

But beginning a little more than a century ago there emerged the idea that one could build mathematics purely from formal axioms, without necessarily any reference to what is accessible to sensory experience. Sometimes it’s straightforward to see what fraction will be achieved even after an infinite number of steps. But often it’s not.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Statistical Mechanics and Simple Programs Back in 1973 I never really managed to do much science on the very first computer I used. But by 1976 I had access to much bigger and faster computers (as well as to the ARPANET—forerunner of the internet). I’m not sure when I first became aware of cryptography.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Projects like 15th Street Farm NEP can help towards tackling food security by providing knowledge, skills and agency to young people so that they will have a role in developing a food system where nutritionally adequate, safe and socially acceptable food is available and accessible. What are your proudest career achievements so far?

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Futurum

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Collaboration “Unlike in natural sciences, teams of collaborators are usually smaller in political science,” says Damien. Suitable undergraduate degrees can include political science, economics, public policy, psychology and sociology. I hope to contribute to this terrific institution like I did at King’s.

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