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#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Smartest Thing Around

I tend to think that our species from its invention of language has managed to build up this kind of tower of abstraction. We've become through the fact that we've experienced language and learnt abstraction, we've sort of become smarter at those kinds of abstract kinds of things. It might have to do with speed, but it might be concepts in the cat's head. And I suspect what a cat notices is very similar - even though cats have only two kinds of color receptors.

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