Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. And that’s for example why things like mathematical formulas have been able to be as successful in science as they have. It’s not exactly “solving science”, and it wouldn’t even allow one to “discover the unexpected”.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) — computer algorithms and systems able to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. The rise of powerful image- and video-editing software means that it is easier than ever to construct digital images and videos that look real but are fake or misleading.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As a result, a new discipline, known as research computing, has emerged to apply computers, not just software, to research including to help scientists capture images, construct models, which are turned into simulations, and analyse results. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For that was a time when the concepts of computing were first being worked out—and through approaches like cybernetics and the nascent area of artificial intelligence, people started exploring the broader scientific implications of computational ideas. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

One of the notable features of a system like ChatGPT is that it isn’t constructed in an “understand-every-step” traditional engineering way. There’s one category that in many ways seems surprising to still be “with us”: jobs that involve lots of mechanical manipulation, like construction, fulfillment, food preparation, etc.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

He was going for what he saw as the big prize: using them to “construct the universe”. In 1956 McCarthy had been one of the organizers of the conference that coined the term “artificial intelligence”, and in 1958 McCarthy began the development of LISP (which was based on linked lists ). But Ed wasn’t interested.

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