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#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Machine Learning Is Changing the Way We Calculate Things

Mu zero can be not only Kasparov and chess, but also Stockfish, which is the best GoFi chess program by learning. We've seen more of that now. That shift beginning to happen in physics. So let me give you an example. Laddis QCD is an area of physics whose goal is basically to take the periodic table and just compute the whole thing from first principles. But it's so computationally expensive that we still haven't been able to calculate things as accurately as we measure them in many cases.

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