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

Stephen Wolfram

One of the notable features of a system like ChatGPT is that it isn’t constructed in an “understand-every-step” traditional engineering way. But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. Vastly more ornate “food constructions” might become the norm.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

It turns out that it’s possible to construct such a function. Later, we’ll talk about how such a function can be constructed, and the idea of neural nets. And the nontrivial scientific fact is that for an image-recognition task like this we now basically know how to construct functions that do this.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

And as part of that, I was curious what kinds of patterns people had in fact constructed from rules, for art or otherwise. What about systems that adapt or learn? And although the details are more complicated, the whole notion of deep learning in neural nets can also be thought of as related. &#10005.

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