Stephen Wolfram

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Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, Inc., Wolfram Alpha LLC

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Stephen Wolfram on Wikipedia

 

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Stephen Wolfram: The Computational Future - SXSW Interactive 2013

Published on Nov 7, 2013

Stephen Wolfram has spent his life trying to automate everything; to do with computers what people used to have to do for themselves.

What happens when he succeeds?

 

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Stephen Wolfram: Cellular automata, computation, and physics | AI Podcast #89 with Lex Fridman

Apr 18, 2020

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the new Wolfram Physics project. He is the author of several books including A New Kind of Science, which on a personal note was one of the most influential books in my journey in computer science and artificial intelligence. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Stephen. Here's the outline:
0:00 - Introduction
4:16 - Communicating with an alien intelligence
12:11 - Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey
29:06 - What is computation?
44:54 - Physics emerging from computation
1:14:10 - Simulation
1:19:23 - Fundamental theory of physics
1:28:01 - Richard Feynman
1:39:57 - Role of ego in science
1:47:21 - Cellular automata
2:15:08 - Wolfram language
2:55:14 - What is intelligence?
2:57:47 - Consciousness
3:02:36 - Mortality
3:05:47 - Meaning of life

 

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Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124

Sep 15, 2020

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist.

Outline:
0:00 - Introduction
7:14 - Key moments in history of physics
12:43 - Philosophy of science
14:37 - Science and computational reducibility
22:08 - Predicting the pandemic
38:58 - Sunburn moment with Wolfram Alpha
39:46 - Computational irreducibility
46:45 - Theory of everything
52:41 - General relativity
1:01:16 - Quantum mechanics
1:06:46 - Unifying the laws of physics
1:12:01 - Wolfram Physics Project
1:29:53 - Emergence of time
1:34:11 - Causal invariance
1:53:03 - Deriving physics from simple rules on hypergraphs
2:07:24 - Einstein equations
2:13:04 - Simulating the physics of the universe
2:17:28 - Hardware specs of the simulation
2:24:37 - Quantum mechanics in Wolfram physics model
2:42:46 - Double-slit experiment
2:45:13 - Quantum computers
2:53:21 - Getting started with Wolfram physics project
3:14:46 - The rules that created our universe
3:24:22 - Alien intelligences
3:32:29 - Meta-mathematics
3:37:58 - Why is math hard?
3:52:55 - Sabine Hossenfelder and how beauty leads physics astray
4:01:07 - Eric Weinstein and Geometric Unity
4:06:17 - Travel faster than speed of light
4:16:59 - Why does the universe exist at all

 

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Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234

Oct 27, 2021

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist.

Outline:
0:00 - Introduction
0:57 - What is complexity
13:58 - Randomness in the universe
18:19 - The Wolfram Physics Project
30:21 - Space and time are discrete
42:26 - Quantum mechanics and hypergraphs
51:40 - What is intelligence
1:02:23 - Computational equivalence
1:10:43 - What it is like to be a cellular automata
1:25:07 - Making prediction vs explanations
1:38:27 - Why does the universe exist
1:44:08 - The universe and rulial space
1:52:51 - Does an atom have consciousness
2:03:17 - Why does our universe exist
2:11:48 - What is outside the ruliad
2:22:22 - Automated proof systems
2:38:17 - Multicomputation for biology
2:56:48 - Cardano NFT collaboration with Wolfram Alpha
3:03:48 - Global theory of economics

 

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Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #376

May 9, 2023

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and the founder of Wolfram Research, a company behind Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the Wolfram Physics and Metamathematics projects.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
1:33 - WolframAlpha and ChatGPT
21:14 - Computation and nature of reality
48:06 - How ChatGPT works
1:47:48 - Human and animal cognition
2:01:07 - Dangers of AI
2:09:27 - Nature of truth
2:30:49 - Future of education
3:06:51 - Consciousness
3:15:50 - Second Law of Thermodynamics
3:39:23 - Entropy
3:52:23 - Observers in physics
4:09:15 - Mortality