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

Stephen Wolfram

But actual evolution seems more like deep learning with a large neural net—where one’s effectively operating in an extremely high-dimensional space where there’s typically always a “way to get there from here”, at least given enough time. Yes, we can do natural science to figure out some aspects of what’s going to happen.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

But say all we’ve got is the data, and we don’t know what underlying laws govern it. And in fact, much like with the “ deep-learning breakthrough of 2012 ” it may be that such incremental modification will effectively be easier in more complicated cases than in simple ones.

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