Wentie Wang @wangwentie

America’s role in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has exposed the hollowness of Western countries’ stated belief in basic human rights and their inconsistent compliance with international law, says @elerianm. bit.ly/3TGD6Af

«When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me ― it still sometimes happens ― and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see…

Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is one of music's best-known works and the most frequently performed symphony in the world This is an unusual public involvement during the 4th movement execution by the Noord Nederlands Orkest at the Lowlands Music Festival

I wonder if a civilisation of blind people would’ve discovered the principle of relativity based on the const speed of light. Electromagnetism gives you almost all rel. equations, but no principle And whether we’re like this blind civilisation with respect to Quantum Mechanics

I don't read philosophical arguments with an expectation of being lectured. Instead, I find myself in a dialogue with another person on a complicated matter, who tries their best but may be wrong. I develop my own understanding by engaging with their arguments.

Stephen Wolfram on Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

OpenAI's newly released Code Interpreter changes everything. Every business on the planet now has access to an on-demand team of McKinsey consultants for $20/month. To see why, here's what I was able to do in 10 minutes with my own company's data:

Carve out a few hours to learn streamlit.io Powerful for rapid prototyping, interactive visualization. It's a hammer and you'll start seeing a lot of nails.

huge fan of all the strange european quirks refusing to use AC, room temp water, unrefrigerated eggs, walking everywhere, extremely long lunches for no reason, kissing on the cheek, taking all of August off work, not cooking with seed oils what did I miss?

New article by @jpsenescence presenting the case for aging being a software problem. Couldn’t agree more #informationtheoryofaging genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

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Q: If the cosmos beyond our solar system were found to be traversable, how would it change your life, your bucket list, your ideas about the threats to earth and your view of humanity in the Universe? All I ask is that you take a moment before answering. That’s it. Thanks.

The Last Man "And thus spoke Zarathustra to the people." -- Friedrich Nietzsche It is time for man to fix his goal. It is time for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough for it. But that soil will one day be poor and exhausted, and no lofty…

My unwavering opinion on current (auto-regressive) LLMs 1. They are useful as writing aids. 2. They are "reactive" & don't plan nor reason. 3. They make stuff up or retrieve stuff approximately. 4. That can be mitigated but not fixed by human feedback. 5. Better systems will come

AT&T could make those wild claims with confidence because the underlying technology for all of these wonders was actually being developed at Bell Labs. (I was working there at the time). [The tablet-like "fax from the beach" thingy was an actual AT&T product].

Ben Recht @beenwrekt

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These 1993 AT&T commercials predict the future with freakish accuracy! Every single thing exists in 2023. (Of course, none were brought to us by AT&T.) youtube.com/watch?v=RvZ-66…

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It's been the single longest-unfinished project of my life. But after 50 years I think I've now figured out the Second Law of thermodynamics ... and this is the story of how I got there: writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/a-50-y…

Language abilities != Thinking. Or why LLMs such as ChatGPT can eloquently spew complete nonsense. Their grasp of reality is very superficial. theatlantic.com/technology/arc… This piece in the Atlantic comments on a paper by the MIT Cognitive Science crowd arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627

Where did the Second Law of thermodynamics come from, and how did people decide it was true? It's a surprisingly tangled 150-year tale ... which I think I've now been able to untangle... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/how-di…

The reasoning abilities of LLMs are partially compensated by their large associative memory capacity. They are a bit like students who have learned the material by rote but haven't really built deep mental models of the underlying reality.

The fact that learning almost all skills requires practical training and hands-on experience tells you that a huge chunk of high-level human knowledge cannot be acquired by reading text. And then, there is the mass of non-verbal knowledge that babies and animals acquire...