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Lex Fridman · 2023-05-09

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

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

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Cadbury Flake

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“one of my all-time favorites is my whole life is these things these flake things Cadbury flakes which are not much sold in the US”— Stephen Wolfram
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Milk Duds

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“I'll probably put Milk Duds up there”
“I'll probably put Milk Duds up there I don't know if you know do you have a preference for chocolate or candy”— Stephen Wolfram

The guest's own work

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A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

“I'm deeply grateful that you wrote a new kind of science that you explored this mystery of cellular automata and inspired this one little kid in me”— Lex Fridman
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What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

“I gave an example of that the book I wrote about about Chachi BT where it's kind of like you know Galileo was dropping cannonballs”— Stephen Wolfram
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Mathematica

Wolfram Research

“back before Mathematica existed you know in 1988 if you were a you know a physicist or something like that and you wanted to do a computation”— Stephen Wolfram

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick (inferred)

“I'm gonna ask it play the tune that Hal sang when Hal was being disconnected in 2001 okay so it it there it is Daisy”— Stephen Wolfram