Stephen Wolfram

Maybe they wouldn't.

There'd be this long multi-week loop.

that you go through.

And then it was actually very, very interesting to see, 1988, first people like physicists, mathematicians, and so on, then lots of other people.

But this very rapid transition of people realizing they themselves could actually type with their own fingers and make some piece of code that would do a computation that they cared about.

And, you know, it's been exciting to see lots of discoveries and so on made by using that tool.

And I think the same thing is, you know, and we see the same thing, you know, Wolfram Alpha is dealing with is not as deep computation as you can achieve with whole Wolfram Language Mathematica stack.

But the thing that's, to me, particularly exciting about kind of the large language model linguistic interface mechanism is,

is it dramatically broadens the access to kind of deep computation.

I mean, it's kind of like one of the things I've sort of thought about recently is what's going to happen to all these programmers?

What's going to happen to all these people who a lot of what they do is write slabs of boilerplate code?

And in a sense, I've been saying for 40 years, that's not a very good idea.

You can automate a lot of that stuff.

With a high enough level language, that slab of code that's designed in the right way, that slab of code turns into this one function we just implemented that you can just use.

So in a sense, the fact that there's all of this activity of doing sort of lower level programming is something, for me, it seemed like, I don't think this is the right thing to do.

But, you know, and lots of people have used our technology and not had to do that.

But the fact is that that's, you know, so when you look at, I don't know, computer science departments that have turned into places where people are learning the trade of programming, so to speak.

It's sort of a question of what's gonna happen.

And I think there are two dynamics.

One is that kind of sort of boilerplate programming is going to become, you know, it's going to go the way that assembly language went back in the day of something where it's really mostly specified by, at a higher level, you know, you start with natural language, you turn it into a computational language,