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Biweekly ask-me-anything about history of science & technology

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Behind the scenes of previous and current work in various areas of science and research

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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 143] »

1 hour 13 minutes

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Can you explain eclipse prediction like I'm in middle school? High school? College? Is it possible to view an Eclipse from space? Do astronauts on the space station see anything during eclipses? ​​​​Related to the eclipse, it is interesting that the Moon always shows the same side to Earth. Why is that? (I've heard about commensurate frequencies, but I'm not sure about the origin of this fact.) ​​​​How are orbits in the solar system so stable over time? I wonder if it would have any effect if the Moon did rotate with respect to the Earth? If the Moon were spinning fast, it would probably still have a liquid core, I think? ​​​​If the Moon were to be broken apart, leading to a debris field impacting Earth, what models exist to predict the scale of these impacts and their potential effects on global climate, ecosystems and people? Is predicting eclipses harder than predicting the motions of planets or comets? Can LLMs do math? When will the AIs start colonizing space? When we have large models of all sorts of other stuff, will LLMs' primary role not actually be as the interpreters between humans and our tools? Can't we look into the brain to find out what types of transformers or even other things we need in LLMs? View Less »
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (April 3, 2024) »

2 hours 12 minutes

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Is there a directionality to science and technology? Has anyone sort of applied the hacker mentality to the Antikythera mechanism to figure out what else you could use it for? What kind of uses could a time-traveling von Neumann figure out? What is the likelihood that ancient tech we've discovered had vastly different uses than what we believe? ​​​​Southeast Asia is terrible for archeology because you can make almost anything from bamboo: tens of thousands of years ago, people obviously used wood etc., but only stone remains. What does that say going forward, with our fast-rotting bits, in contrast with stone or wood, or even paper? ​​​​Any thoughts on the ancient dodecahedra? Do you have one? Who started research on the periodic tables? Can you discuss a bit about its development? What motivated the advent of the fast Fourier transform algorithm? What was its creator wanting to solve? ​​​​How advanced did analog computers get before we moved to digital computers? Was there any debate on whether we shouldn't move to digital at the time? Why did modern formal logic take so long to develop historically, compared to other branches of mathematics or physical sciences? What explains the delay until the mid-nineteenth century? Is there any knowledge in physics today that has been influenced by ancient texts like the Vedas etc.? View Less »
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Live CEOing #778:
Live CEOing Ep 778: Design Review of DiffTools »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 6 minutes

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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (March 29, 2024) »

1 hour 8 minutes

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Regarding the April 8 eclipse, what should we know about the weather? What if it's cloudy or raining? What will the future of predicting eclipses look like? Will we be able to move the Moon to keep eclipses? The Moon gets further away because of friction in the oceans from tides, so could we play with that mechanic? I've seen a couple articles about attempting to build trains on the Moon. Would that be useful? Should we expect really unusual emergent properties from LLMs as we scale up the data more and more? ​​​​It seems erroneous to think it's a "more data" question; it's the opposite—"less data" (more generalization/transferability and efficiency) via integration of a "symbolic" framework/accelerator. Human senses capture an absolutely tiny sliver of what's going on. Would additional (strong) senses lead to bigger brains or more languages? Is human consciousness one-dimensional? Perhaps it's not so surprising that training AI on games is useful, when humans learn through play in early life. There is an interesting article about how the requirements of ChatGPT-7 would be massive, like 5 Gorge Dams or half the world's computers, and there isn't enough training data. What does it say about logic (and set/type theories) as a so-called formal language that LLMs can't just trivially do logic and reasoning? What's the best way to pass computational representation to language models, plain text or embeddings? View Less »
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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (March 22, 2024) »

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Do you have any plans, and when can we expect to see a S. Wolfram AI chatbot with voice? Do you think each AI iteration of the person would be similar at the start and then diverge in personality/intelligence as they continued to "live" and develop? ​​​​Are you comfortable with the average quality and correctness of AI-generated answers and commentary? ​​​​Due to the success of nature-inspired computing, I am really wondering if like our best bet is creating full-on human replicas, meaning similar learning experiences/processes... I like the architecture of having many bots with like a base that confer and like upload their findings to a global knowledgebase, then disperse on like new assignments or what have you after returning. ​​​​Do you think human brains compress data in a lossy way, and will future AI brains also have to use lossy compression methods to be more human like? Or would AI perfect memory be more desirable? ​​​​Could an element printer theoretically work, e.g. one feeds it with carbon atoms and it prints out an arbitrary element? ​​Can you explain the quantum LLMs idea, and what advantage exists in applying multi-computation, if any, to LLMs? What would an AI look like that is rewarded based on questioning rather than answering? ​​​​What do you think will happen when we understand prime numbers to their fullest? And when we can translate this knowledge to AI? View Less »
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Live CEOing #777:
Live CEOing Ep 777: Language Design in the Wolfram Language [% Modernization] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 59 minutes

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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (March 20, 2024) »

54 minutes

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​​Has any species evolved in a measurable way since humans have been observing and tracking evolution? Why are there more bacteria than blood cells in a human body? Would you say humans have aided in the evolution of domestic animals? Has all of Grothendieck's work been understood yet? What was the earliest use of radioactivity for light or heat? What current technological advancement would be most beneficial to ancient societies? Getting to significant and industrial scales was really hard for penicillin.​ What kind of technology present today do you see becoming nothing more than history? What are some examples of previous technology being discarded? View Less »
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Live CEOing #776:
Live CEOing Ep 776: Language Design in the Wolfram Language ["BC" date strings and More] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour

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Live CEOing #775:
Live CEOing Ep 775: Language Design in the Wolfram Language [InterpolatingFunction Methods and More] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 48 minutes

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Public & Special Events:
Stephen Wolfram Readings: Can AI Solve Science? »

with Stephen Wolfram | 2 hours 33 minutes

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Live CEOing #774:
Live CEOing Ep 774: Language Design in the Wolfram Language [HistoricalCountries] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 46 minutes

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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (March 8, 2024) »

1 hour 32 minutes

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Could mind uploading be achieved 20–40 years from now? Memory in human brains is like RAM: it's gone the second you shut the human off. What about copyright for bots based on real people? What are the legal implications? If we could upload our brain to something else, would it be feasible to upload data to our brains or upgrade parts similar to that of upgrading one's computer? What kind of compression algorithm is used on our thoughts? Would it be possible to read brainwaves using AI? ​​​​​​What is the "artificial" part of AI? As far as I can see, LLMs are a breakthrough in the study of intelligence itself. Will technology have an effect on human evolution and ultimately change our physical bodies in the future, i.e. such as our eyes becoming optimized for looking at screens all day, like a built-in blue-light filter, or prioritizing finger shapes to better type on a keyboard or hold a phone... What do you imagine the future of communication to be? We've had spoken word, mailed letters, telegrams, phone calls, emails and now texts. What's next? ​​I need an AI version of Socrates to speak with about being. Are there limitations to using genetic data to understand language-related traits? If so, how might these limitations affect the accuracy or applicability of language models? ​​Do LLMs work well in Egyptian hieroglyphic concepts? Do you regard math as a "language"? If so, would you suggest "talking" math out loud with a child? Stephen mentioned in a recent podcast that certain subject matters in certain academic fields are in a position to be combined with computation and haven't been so far—and stated that it was low-hanging fruit if one was to do it. I was wondering if Stephen could give some examples of these "low-hanging fruits." View Less »
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