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

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Discovering the Laws of Semantic Grammar in Language

The discovery of laws of semantic grammar goes beyond simple logic and represents a more complicated phenomenon. These laws can be considered as the laws of language or the laws of thought. George Boole referred to his algebra as the laws of thought in 1830. While GPT (chat GPT) is successful in generating language, there is still more to uncover. GPT is in the process of discovering the laws of semantic grammar that form the basis of language. Interestingly, there are various computations that can be done in the computational universe, but humans primarily operate within the laws of semantic grammar due to the structure of our brains.

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