Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (January 18, 2023)

Oct 13, 2023

Stephen Wolfram answers viewer questions about business, innovation, and managing life. Topics include the daily questions CEO's should ask, benefits of walking as exercise, using ChatGPT for writing, motivation in business, generative AI companies, managing email, finding focus in research, and open sourcing the Stephen Wolfram bot.

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Introduction

00:00 • 4min

Challenges of Prioritizing Tasks and Walking as Multitasking

04:28 • 9min

The Challenges of Writing a Children's Book and Finding Motivation in Business Endeavors

13:35 • 3min

Managing Multiple Projects and Finding Motivation

16:39 • 13min

Rise of Generative AI Companies and Language Models

29:55 • 21min

Exploring the Potential of Generative AI Systems and Writing Text

50:36 • 3min

Managing Email and Training a Bot

53:23 • 5min

Finding Focus in Research

58:21 • 15min

Finding Satisfaction in Building and Contributing

01:13:32 • 15min

Open Sourcing the Stephen Wolfram Bot and Training Materials

01:28:13 • 10min

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa

Questions include: What is the one question (or all questions) a CEO must be asking himself every day? - Why did you choose walking as your main exercise? Did you try other modalities? Is there a scientific reason or just personal preference? Did you do any analysis regarding which exercises deliver the best benefits for the time/energy spent? - Have you thought about using ChatGPT to help you write a fiction book? I saw recently someone used AI to create a children's book in the time frame of a weekend. - What do you do when you are feeling that you are lost or unmotivated and not having a clear vision into what should be done next in your business endeavors? - I'm very impressed at how well you express yourself in these videos. Do you think writing has helped you in this regard? - What are your thoughts for the coming wave of founders starting generative AI companies? - I feel like ChatGPT and the art AIs will be able to make full-blown movies algorithmically. - I've used ChatGPT for writing technical instructions and procedures at work. I really dislike doing them myself, and GPT gives an excellent first cut with English better than I could write it. - I think you would have to include that you used chat as an aid for the email. - How do I focus on a problem? There are so many aspects in literature and following cross-referencing can be overwhelming. - How do you deal with distractions and not get overstimulated by external forces? How do you stay focused on hard tasks? - Can I ask about "team building," particularly with highly technical types of peoples (scientists, engineers, savants)? - What is your advice for someone employed full time in the industry doing something else to do research in another area? - How did you find out that you would excel at physics and computational physics? - Will you open source the Stephen Wolfram bot? - Do you have an overview of all the projects you have in your company? What do you think about too many versus too little projects? - Do you think it is a good idea to treat coding/programming as a sport, i.e. the same as football, e.g. score a goal, become famous?