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. One person wants to get a cookie. Last[#][[1]]], GrayLevel[0.5,

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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. Already the steam-engine works our mines, impels our ships, excavates our ports and our rivers, forges iron, fashions wood, grinds grain, spins and weaves our cloths, transports the heaviest burdens, etc.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. Then (by the assumed properties of equality) it follows that. In other words, we’re concerned more with what computational results are obtained, with what computational resources, rather than on the details of the program constructed to achieve this.

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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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