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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

Should we think of it essentially as a practical tool for accessing existing methods, or does it provide something fundamentally new for science? My goal here is to explore and assess what AI can and can’t be expected to do in science. We know the ones that correspond to “known science”. So how does AI stack up?

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Project MAC After he left III in 1968, Ed’s next stop would be MIT, and specifically Project MAC (the “Multiple Access Computer” Project). The article said that the “MAC” stood either for “Multiple Access Computer” or “Machine-Aided Cognition”. Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. It’s just my nature.