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

Stephen Wolfram

For about three centuries it seemed as if mathematical equations were the ultimate way to describe the natural world—but in the past few decades , and particularly poignantly with our recent Physics Project , it’s become clear that simple programs are in general a more powerful approach.) We’ve been talking about “jobs”.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

It explains that III has four divisions: Mathematical and Programming Services, Behavioral Science, Operations, and “New York”. So what happened is Marvin [Minsky] and I basically fleshed out the idea of a mathematical thing. It says that “From a one-man operation [in 1962], I.I.I. And it was agreed that we would do it.