History of Science & Technology Q&A (January 11, 2023)
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What could Aristotle have accomplished if he had a modern machine-learning system? Could he have discovered logic? - Didn't Noam Chomsky also do some work in the intersection between math/logic and language? I wondered if language models are based on that at all? - Will the next generation of ChatGPT or VoiceGPT have any negative recourse, especially when it comes to impersonation? - A similar Chomsky idea is "can a submarine swim?" In English it can't, and in Japanese it can. - Do you think AI presents an existential risk? If so, how could we mitigate it? - How do you think Einstein or even Stephen Hawking would react to ChatGPT? Are there any figures in science who predicted this development? - Given what we have learned from AI models, does learning from history allow us to better predict the future? Does modeling the past imply modeling the future? - Ants are structured distinctly enough and that can lead to immediate conclusions on many levels.