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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

I mean, in other words, there's a certain amount that is the endocrine system kicking in and these kinds of emotional overlay type things that happen to be, that are actually much more physical even, they're much more sort of straightforwardly chemical,

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

than kind of all of the higher level thinking.

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

No, that's a, well, but the, you know.

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

Yes.

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

But I mean, the intrinsic thing of something sort of shocking is just happening, and you have some sort of reaction, which is some neurotransmitter gets secreted, and that is the beginning of some... That's one of the pieces of input that then drives.

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

It's kind of like a prompt that

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

For the large language model, I mean, just like when we dream, for example, no doubt there are all these sort of random inputs, they're kind of these random prompts, and then it's percolating through in kind of the way that a large language model does of kind of putting together things that seem meaningful.

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

Look, I mean, one point is my mode of life has been I build tools and then I use the tools.

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

And in a sense, kind of

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

I'm building this tower of automation, which, and in a sense, when you make a company or something, you are making sort of automation, but it has some humans in it, but also as much as possible, it has computers in it.

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

And so I think it's sort of an extension of that.

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

Now, if I really didn't know

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

that, you know, it's a funny question.

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

I mean, it's a funny issue when, you know, if we think about sort of what's gonna happen to the future of kind of jobs people do and so on, and there are places where kind of having a human in the loop, there are different reasons to have a human in the loop.

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

For example, you might want a human in the loop because you want another human to be invested in the outcome.

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

You want a human flying the plane who's going to die if the plane crashes along with you, so to speak.

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

And that gives you sort of confidence that the right thing is going to happen.

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

Or you might want, you know, right now, you might want a human in the loop in some kind of sort of human encouragement persuasion type profession.

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

Whether that will continue, I'm not sure for those types of professions, because it may be that the greater efficiency of, you know, of being able to have sort of just the right information delivered at just the right time will overcome the kind of the kind of, oh, yes, I want a human there.