Is the Cosmos a Vast Computation? | Science Festival

Pioneering computer scientist and physicist Stephen Wolfram joins Brian Greene to discuss the interplay between physical law, computation, and artificial intelligence.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participant: Stephen Wolfram
Moderator: Brian Greene

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:49 - Participant Introduction
02:15 - Will AI Somehow Reshape The Way We Approach Scientific Research?
19:01 - A Look Inside AI Large Language Models
22:02 - Deciding What Is It We Find Interesting?
24:19 - The Future Of AI’s Role In Finding New Areas To Research
32:10 - Human And AI Computation
36:39 - The Future Of Recursively Self-Improving AI
41:59 - Credits

Is the Cosmos a Vast Computation?
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