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

Stephen Wolfram

There’ll be more specialized sessions exploring > implications and applications in areas such as computer science, > biology, social science, physics, mathematics, philosophy, and future > of technology. > > I’ll be giving a series of in-depth lectures to explain the core > ideas of NKS.

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

Stephen Wolfram

For example, something that in the past needed “human persuasion” might be “automated” by something like gamification—but then more of it can be done, with new needs for design, analytics, management, etc. We’ll be able to say some things—though perhaps in ways that are closer to psychology or social science than to traditional exact science.

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