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

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

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?

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(11:33) Determining values and weights in a neural net

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(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

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(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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0:00.0	Today, on this week in Start-ups, Jason is joined by Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Research.
0:05.6	The two have an incredible conversation about AI, including Wolfram launching one of the first
0:10.4	chat GPT plugins, the history of neural nets, how exactly chat GPT works, how this technology
0:16.8	is going to shape jobs in the future, and so much more. Stick with us.
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1:18.7	start a free backup or sign up for a demo. All right, I'm really excited for our next guest today.
1:26.4	Even Wolfram is here. It's a founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. You might have used Wolfram
1:32.7	Alpha, which I guess some people call it Surgeon, but it's obviously much more than that.
1:38.0	And he's a prolific author. I really don't need to introduce him all that much.
1:42.0	I guess a great place to start would be maybe to talk about what we've seen with chat GPT.
1:50.2	And how impressive is it to you watching 3.5 and 4 come out over the past year. And then we'll
1:58.2	get into the plugins and how Wolfram Alpha is sort of plugging into it. Well, you know, I've been
2:05.0	paying attention to neural nets since about 1980. That was when I first programmed up a neural
2:11.8	net. Didn't do anything terribly interesting. So it's, you know, then 2012 comes around and deep
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