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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be. Perhaps even the architecture of the network can change. Probably it’s because neural nets capture the architectural essence of actual brains. The simplest known up to that time involved 9 binary ( Nand ) operations.

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

Stephen Wolfram

In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. And he says “There’s a problem.