Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
I think it can go rather a long way.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Yeah, yeah, right.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
That's a, yeah, you know.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Well, I'll give you a much more benign version of that idea.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
You're going to make an AI tutoring system.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And that's a benign version of what you're saying is, I want this person to understand this point.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
You're essentially doing machine learning where the loss function, the thing you're trying to get to is get the human to understand this point.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And when you do a test on the human that they, yes, they correctly understand how this or that works.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And I am confident that sort of a large language model type technology combined with computational language is going to be able to do pretty well at teaching us humans things.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And it's going to be an interesting phenomenon because sort of individualized teaching
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
is a thing that has been kind of a, you know, a goal for a long time.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
I think we're gonna get that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And I think more, you know, it has many consequences for, you know, like just, you know, if you know me, as in if you, the AI, know me,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Tell me, I'm about to do this thing.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
What are the three things I need to know, you know, given what I already know?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
You know, let's say I'm looking at some paper or something, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
It's like there's a version of the summary of that paper that is optimized for me, so to speak, and where it really is, and I think that's really going to work.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Right.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
And that's an important thing because it really changes.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#376 โ Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Actually, I think when you think about education and so on, it really changes kind of what's worth doing, what's not worth doing and so on.