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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. This equivalence has many consequences. And this is effectively where computational irreducibility comes from.

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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. It was a book about science produced to a level of quality probably never equaled except by books about art. It was a book full of algorithmic pictures like none seen before.

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