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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

Right, and so it has this thing where you can, but, you know, thinking about sort of chat GPT and its use and so on,

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

One of the big things about it, I think, is it's a linguistic user interface.

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

That is, so a typical use case might be, and take the journalist case, for example.

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

It's like, let's say I have five facts that I'm trying to turn into an article, or I'm trying to write a report where I have basically five facts that I'm trying to include in this report.

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

But then I feed those five facts to ChatGPT, it puffs them out into this big report.

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

And then that's a good interface for it.

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

If I just gave...

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

if I just had in my terms, those five bullet points and I gave them to some other person, the person would say, I don't know what you're talking about because these are, you know, this is your version of this sort of quick notes about these five bullet points.

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

But if you puff it out into this thing, which is kind of connects to the collective understanding of language, then somebody else can look at it and say, okay, I understand what you're talking about.

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

Now you can also have a situation where that thing that was puffed out is fed to another large language model.

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

You know, it's kind of like,

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

You know, you're applying for the permit to, you know, I don't know, grow fish in some place or something like this.

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

And you have these facts that you're putting in, you know, I'm going to have a, you know, I'm going to...

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

have this kind of water and I don't know what it is.

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

You've just got a few bullet points.

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

It puffs it out into this big application.

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

You fill it out.

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

Then at the other end, the fisheries bureau has another large language model that just crushes it down because the fisheries bureau cares about these three points.

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

And it knows what it cares about.

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

So it's really the natural language produced by the large language model is sort of a transport layer