Stephen Wolfram: Physics, ChatGPT, & AI

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Center for the Future Mind (https://www.fau.edu/future-mind/) presents this Wolfram lecture from Mindfest 2023. This episode has been released early in an ad-free audio version for TOE members at http://theoriesofeverything.org.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

- Center for the Future Mind: https://www.fau.edu/future-mind/

- Donald Hoffman, Bernardo Kastrup, Susan Schneider debate on Machines and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/VmQXpKyUh4g

- Stephen Wolfram on Wolfram Physics Project on TOE: https://youtu.be/1sXrRc3Bhrs

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:58 Physics from computation

00:11:30 Generalizing Turing machines

00:17:34 Dark matter as Indicating "atoms of space"

00:22:13 Energy as density of space itself

00:30:30 Entanglement limit of all possible computations

00:34:53 What persists across the universe are "concepts"

00:40:09 How does ChatGPT work?

00:41:41 Irreducible computation, ChatGPT, and AI

00:49:20 Recovering general relativity from the ruliad (Wolfram Physics Project)

00:58:38 Coming up: David Chalmers, Ben Goertzel, and more Wolfram