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Stephen Wolfram on AI’s rapid progress & the “Post-Knowledge Work Era” | E1711
This Week in Startups
The Differences Between Computers and Neural Networks
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In the case of brains, our brains have a lot of detailed sort of stuff in them. None of that stuff is happening in something like an LLM-like neural net. It's just rippling through saying what's the next word and, you know, itJust ripples through and so on. And there's this kind of concept that's sort of a concept that I kind of invented in the 1980s called computational irreducibility. That means if you want to get the result, you have to actually go through the steps of the computation. There are many situations where you can't jump ahead. You just have to do the computations which include irreducible
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