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Stephen Wolfram on AI’s rapid progress & the “Post-Knowledge Work Era” | E1711

Stephen Wolfram on AI’s rapid progress & the “Post-Knowledge Work Era” | E1711

FromThis Week in Startups


Stephen Wolfram on AI’s rapid progress & the “Post-Knowledge Work Era” | E1711

FromThis Week in Startups

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Length:
87 minutes
Released:
Mar 31, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Research joins Jason for an all-encompassing conversation about AI, from the history of neural nets (7:53) to how modern ai emulates the human brain (19:33). This leads to an in-depth discussion about the pace at which AI is evolving (43:46), The “Post-Knowledge Work” era (58:45), the unintended consequences of AI (1:03:52), and so much more.
(0:00) Nick kicks off the show
(1:24) Under the hood of ChatGPT
(7:53) What is a neural net? 
(10:05) Cast.ai - Get a free cloud cost audit with a personal consultation at https://cast.ai/twist
(11:33) Determining values and weights in a neural net
(18:28) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(19:33) Emulating the human brain
(23:26) Defining computational irreducibility
(26:14) Emergent behavior and the rules of language
(31:49) Discovering logic + creating a computational language
(38:10) Clumio - Start a free backup, or sign up for a demo at https://clumio.com/twist
(39:38) Wolfram’s ChatGPT plugin
(43:46) The rapid pace of AI 
(58:45) The “Post-Knowledge Work” era
(1:03:52) The unintended consequences of AI 
(1:11:45) Rewarding innovation 
(1:16:12) The possibility of AGI 
(1:20:07) Creating a general-purpose robotic system
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Released:
Mar 31, 2023
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