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

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. Some of it seems intrinsic to our biological nature. For now, there’s a certain element of what we want to do that’s “anchored” by our biological nature. And in biology it shows up as some structure (ribosome, cell, wing, etc.)

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

And in fact the big breakthrough in “deep learning” that occurred around 2011 was associated with the discovery that in some sense it can be easier to do (at least approximate) minimization when there are lots of weights involved than when there are fairly few. The key is the notion of attractors.

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