Stephen Wolfram

I think it's a mixed thing that I've, you know, I've invented a bunch of things which I kind of can, I think, see well enough what's going to happen that, you know, in 50 years, 100 years, whatever, assuming the world doesn't exterminate itself, so to speak, you know, these are things that will be sort of centrally important to what's going on.

And it's kind of both, it's both a good thing and a bad thing in terms of the passage of one's life.

I mean, it's kind of like if everything I'd figured out was like, okay, I figured it out when I was 25 years old and everybody says it's great and we're done.

And it's like, okay, but I'm going to live another how many years?

And that's kind of, it's all downhill from there.

In a sense, it's better in some sense to be able to, you know, it sort of keeps things interesting

that I can see a lot of these things.

I didn't expect ChatGPT.

I didn't expect the opening up of this idea of computation and computational language that's been made possible by this.

I didn't expect that.

This is ahead of schedule, so to speak.

Even though the big flowering of that stuff, I'd been assuming was another 50 years away.

So if it turns out it's a lot less time, that's pretty cool because, you know, I'll hopefully get to see it, so to speak, rather than...

By the time we're saying aliens are visiting us, we've already prejudiced the whole story.

Because the concept of an alien actually visiting, so to speak, we already know they're kind of things that make sense to talk about visiting.

So we already know they exist in the same kind of physical setup that we do.

They're not, you know, it's not just radio signals.

It's an actual thing that shows up and so on.

So I think in terms of, can one find ways to communicate?

Well, the best example we have of this right now is AI.