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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

From an architectural standpoint, it is the part of the building that people will see, so its aesthetic traits are important. From an architectural standpoint, it is the part of the building that people will see, so its aesthetic traits are important. Be creative. DID YOU ALWAYS WANT TO BE AN ENGINEER WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER?

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Because for some reason—that maybe one day we’ll have a scientific-style understanding of—if we always pick the highest-ranked word, we’ll typically get a very “flat” essay, that never seems to “show any creativity” (and even sometimes repeats word for word). There are several key parts.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

People might say: “Computers can never show creativity or originality”. But actual evolution seems more like deep learning with a large neural net—where one’s effectively operating in an extremely high-dimensional space where there’s typically always a “way to get there from here”, at least given enough time. So what’s left?

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

But mostly all I could do was scour books on art history (and architecture) looking for relevant pictures (and, yes, it was books at the time—and in fact the web didn’t immediately help even when it became available). One piece of absorption that did happen in the 4–10 year window was into areas like art and architecture.).

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