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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 Computation Thinking

We've been working out a lot of tooling around this workflow, the natural language to computational language. What one realizes is humans have to have some idea of kind of this way of thinking about things computationally without that you're kind of out of luck because you just have no idea what you're going to walk up to a computer. That's not what computers do. I mean, and Wolf Moutver, for example, you could say what's the typical weight of a stegosaurus that will give you some answer but that's a very different kind of thing from what one thinks of computers is doing.

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