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#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Impact of Wolfram Alpha on Society

There's so many interesting possibilities here that manifest themselves from the computer, computational irreducibility here. It's just so many things can happen because in digital space, things move so quickly. You can have a chat bar, you can have a piece of code that you can basically have chat GPT, generate viruses and sit down near on purpose - they are digital viruses. And they could be brain viruses too. They convince kind of like phishing emails. Yes. So one of the relevant concerns here in terms of the impact of GPT on society is the nature of truth that's relevant to Wolfram Alpha.

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