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Lex Fridman Podcast

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

May 9, 2023
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  • Computational thinking enables computers to help us compute and discover new insights.
  • Translating natural language into computational language allows users to specify computations by refining and debugging generated code.

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The Power of Computational Thinking

The conversation explores the importance of computational thinking in understanding the world and developing advanced technologies. It emphasizes how formalizing our understanding of the world in terms of computation enables computers to help us compute and discover new insights.

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