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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Then we might make a mathematical guess, like that perhaps we should use a straight line as a model: We could pick different straight lines. It’s just something that’s mathematically simple, and we’re used to the fact that lots of data we measure turns out to be well fit by mathematically simple things.

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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. How ‘cool’ is that?! PURSUING A CAREER IN ENGINEERING.

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

Stephen Wolfram

For about three centuries it seemed as if mathematical equations were the ultimate way to describe the natural world—but in the past few decades , and particularly poignantly with our recent Physics Project , it’s become clear that simple programs are in general a more powerful approach.)

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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). What about systems that adapt or learn? What about the foundations of mathematics? &#10005.

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