Lex Fridman Podcast
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
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Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the new Wolfram Physics project. He is the author of several books including A New Kind of Science, which on a personal note was one of the most influential books in my journey in computer science and artificial intelligence.
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Stephen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephen_wolfram
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OUTLINE:
– Introduction
– Communicating with an alien intelligence
– Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey
– What is computation?
– Physics emerging from computation
– Simulation
– Fundamental theory of physics
– Richard Feynman
– Role of ego in science
– Cellular automata
– Wolfram language
– What is intelligence?
– Consciousness
– Mortality
– Meaning of life
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