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

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. People might say: “Computers can never show creativity or originality”. This equivalence has many consequences. So what’s left?

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

And although the details are more complicated, the whole notion of deep learning in neural nets can also be thought of as related. And whatever other awards the book would win, it was rather lovely to win one for its creative use of paper: &#10005. So much about the NKS book was unusual.

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