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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 the future of kind of everything is going to become more and more important as this phenomenon of computational responsibility. If you could reduce that computation, there isn't a sense no point in doing the computation. The only way we can figure out what's going to happen next is just let the system run and see what happens. There are always places, there are always an infinite number of places where you can jump ahead. We exist in a slice of all the possible computational reducibility in the universe. And I don't care about most of it - well, the air is still going to be reducible.

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