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Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository
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Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm
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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—both available immediately on desktop and cloud. It’s only been 196 days since...
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with...
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of...
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Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the...
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Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics
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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything
Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more...
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Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes
The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible paths of history. In a typical standard computational system like a cellular automaton, there’s...
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Observer Theory
h2.bookpost{display:block;} img.bookpost{padding-top:20px} The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the...
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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3....
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Can AI Solve Science?
Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for training the neural nets used here is also available (requires GPU). Won’t AI Eventually Be Able to Do...
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Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language
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When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation
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Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution...
The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s...
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Ruliology of the “Forgotten” Code 10
My All-Time Favorite Science Discovery June 1, 1984—forty years ago today—is when it would be fair to say I made my all-time favorite science discovery. Like with basically all significant science...
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Yet More New Ideas and New Functions: Launching Version 14.1 of Wolfram...
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What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount has been figured out about how...
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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next
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Nestedly Recursive Functions
Yet Another Ruliological Surprise Integers. Addition. Subtraction. Maybe multiplication. Surely that’s not enough to be able to generate any serious complexity. In the early 1980s I had made the very...
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