Stephen Wolfram

And there are many kinds of features, I think, of the way the world works.

that are captured in these aspects of language, so to speak.

And I think what ChatGPT effectively has found, just like it discovered logic, you know, people are really surprised it can do these logical inferences, it discovered logic the same way Aristotle discovered logic, by looking at a lot of sentences effectively and noticing the patterns in those sentences.

Yes, that was the title that George Boole had for his Boolean algebra back in 1830.

Laws of thought?

Yes, that was what he said.

All right.

So he thought he nailed it with Boolean algebra.

Yeah.

There's more to it.

Yes.

And what's sort of interesting is in the computational universe, there's a lot of other kinds of computation that you could do.

They're just not ones that we humans have cared about and operate with.

And that's probably because our brains are built in a certain way.

And, you know, the neural nets of our brains are not that different in some sense from the neural nets of a large language model.

And that's kind of, and so when we think about, and maybe we can talk about this some more, but when we think about sort of what will AIs ultimately do, the answer is insofar as AIs are just doing computation, they can run off and do all these kinds of crazy computations.

But the ones that we sort of have decided we care about is this kind of very limited set.

Yes.

Well, it's like technology.

I mean, in a sense, the physical world provides all kinds of things.