alt Hacker NewsThere's a great discussion with Stephen Wolfram on the Sean Carroll podcast. Listening to it made me think very highly of Wolfram. He's a free thinking, eccentric, mathematician, scientist; who got started doing serious work at a very young age. He still has a youthful creative approach to thought and science. I hope LLMs do pair well with his tools.
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He's been in AI-land forever, the whole idea of Wolfram Alpha circa 2009 was to transform natural language into algorithms. I met him briefly in New York when he was on a panel on AI ethics in 2016, and ya, dude is sharp.
He live streams the (internal) Wolfram Alpha product meetings on YouTube. It's really interesting to watch, I've been a fly on the wall for years.
I'm fairly certain Stephen Wolfram will be one of the few intellectuals today that will still be remembered in 50 years.
To save others a search, here's the podcast with Wolfram.
Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics - https://podbay.fm/p/sean-carrolls-mindscape-science-society-... (2hr 40min)
I'm a fan of his work and person too. Not a fanatic or evangelical level, but I do think he's one of the more historically relevant computer scientists and philosophers working today. I can overlook his occasional arrogance, and recognize that there's a genuine and original thinker who's been pursuing truth and knowledge for decades.