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History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 10, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Future of Computing

40 years ago I was just coming upon this idea of computational irreducibility and the extent to which that would play out in kind of the unexpected in history. By the mid 1980s I was quite for quite aware of that issue but still sought to predict things about the future even though at some level I expected it to limit what I could really say about the future. It's so interesting to see these things that start as murmurs and then become kind of all around us, he says. He doesn't expect people will be able to transfer one voice to another using an automated AI system well of courseI believe that's possible you know I've seen demos it's not yet a routine

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