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What if all the intelligence in our world? At least Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.

What if all the intelligence in our world could be expressed in computational terms?

That is the work of computer scientist Stephen Wolfram, and in his talk from Ted AI 2023 he teaches us about the possibility

of this and how AI can help us better establish a language of computational thinking.

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Human language, mathematics, logic,

these are all ways to formalize the world.

And in our century, there's a new and yet more powerful one, computation.

For nearly 50 years I've had the great privilege of building up an ever taller

tower of science and technology that's based on that idea of computation.

And so today I want to tell you a little bit about what that's led to.

There's a lot to talk about, so I'm going to go quickly, and sometimes I'm going to summarize in a sentence

while I've written a whole book about.

But I last gave a TED Talk 13 years ago in February 2010. soon after Wolf-alpha launched.

And I ended that talk with a question.

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