Stephen Wolfram

And what really is important is kind of computational X for all X. And there's this kind of thing which is kind of like CX, not CS.

And CX is this kind of computational understanding of the world that isn't the sort of details of programming and programming languages and the details of how particular computers are made.

It's this kind of way of formalizing the world.

It's kind of a little bit like what logic was going for back in the day.

And we're now trying to find a formalization of everything in the world.

And you can kind of see, you know, we made a poster years ago of kind of the growth of systematic data in the world.

So all these different kinds of things that, you know, there were sort of systematic descriptions found for those things.

Like, you know, at what point do people have the idea of having calendars, dates, you know, a systematic description of what day it was.

At what point did people have the idea, you know, systematic descriptions of these kinds of things?

And as soon as one can, you know, people, you know, as a way of sort of formulating, how do you think about the world in a sort of a formal way so that you can kind of build up a tower of capabilities?

You kind of have to know sort of how to think about the world computationally.

It kind of needs a name.

And it isn't, you know,

We implement it with computers, so we talk about it as computational, but really what it is is a formal way of talking about the world.

What is the formalism of the world, so to speak, and how do we learn about how to think about different aspects of the world in a formal way?

Ah, yes, well.

So one question is whether there will be a pigeon of computational language and natural language.

And I found myself sometimes talking to ChatGPT, trying to get it to write Wolfram language code, and I write it in pigeon form.

So that means I'm combining nest list,

This collection of, you know, whatever, you know, nest list is a term from orphan language and I'm combining that and chat GPT does a decent job of understanding that pigeon.