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Stephen Wolfram

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

Well, a gust of wind is a complicated concept.

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

You know, it's full of little pieces of fluid dynamics and little vortices here and there, and you have to define, you know, was it, you know, the aspect of the gust of wind that you care about might be, it put this amount of pressure on this, you know, blade of some, you know, wind turbine or something.

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

But if you have something which is the fact of the gust of wind was this strong or whatever, you have to have some definition of that.

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

You have to have some measuring device that says, according to my measuring device that was constructed this way, the gust of wind was this.

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

just to say nonfiction as much as possible.

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

This is the importance of computational language as an intermediate.

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

It's kind of like you've got the large language model, it's able to surface something which is a formal precise thing that you can then look at and you can run tests on it and you can do all kinds of things.

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

It's always going to work the same way and it's precisely defined what it does.

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

And then the large language model is the interface.

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

I mean, the way I view these large language models, one of their important, I mean, there are many use cases.

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

And, you know, it's a remarkable thing to talk about some of these, you know, literally, you know, every day we're coming up with a couple of new use cases, some of which are very, very, very surprising.

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

And things where, I mean, but the best use cases are ones where it's, you know, even if it gets it roughly right, it's still a huge win.

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

Like a use case we had from a week or two ago is read our bug reports.

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

You know, we've got hundreds of thousands of bug reports that have accumulated over decades.

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

And it's like, you know, can we have it just read the bug report, figure out where the, where is the bug likely to be?

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

And, you know, home in on that piece of code, maybe it'll even suggest some, some, you know, sort of way to fix the code.

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

It might get that.

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

It might be nonsense, what it says about how to fix the code, but it's incredibly useful that it was able to, you know, so awesome.

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

Yeah, but I think, I mean, the big thing, I mean, in that kind of discussion, the unique thing about our computational language is it was intended to be read by humans.

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

Yes, that's really important.