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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Importance of Symbolic Representation in Natural Language

Wolfram: We're trying to find a way to represent precisely so you can compute things. See, see one thing, we say, you give a piece of natural language. The question is, could it be turned into this symbolic computational thing from which you can compute all kinds of consequences? And that's kind of our goal is to have as much as possible about the world that can be computed in a reasonable way. So then we can sort of speak, be able to be captured by this kind of computational language. That's, that'skind of the goal.

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