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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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@rajathshetty325 4 года назад

From wikipedia: "..As a young child, Wolfram had difficulties learning arithmetic. At the age of 12, he wrote a directory of physics. By age 14, he had written three books on particle physics." Wolfram, at the age of 15, began research in applied quantum field theory and particle physics and published scientific papers. Topics included matter creation and annihilation, the fundamental interactions, elementary particles and their currents, hadronic and leptonic physics, and the parton model, published in professional peer-reviewed scientific journals including Nuclear Physics B, Australian Journal of Physics, Nuovo Cimento, and Physical Review D.[42] Working independently, Wolfram published a widely cited paper on heavy quark production at age 18[2] and nine other papers,[18] and continued research and to publish on particle physics into his early twenties. Wolfram's work with Geoffrey C. Fox on the theory of the strong interaction is still used in experimental particle physics. This guy is a genius.

@MrValkyr1e 4 года назад

Don't believe everything you read

@williamseipp9691 4 года назад

man... to dive THAT deep into particle physics and stay there, I wonder where that curiosity comes from. I mean I understand some basics of physics and the size of quarks and neutrinos but it's frankly boring for me. I wonder why he found it so interesting at so young an age?

@Intaqa 4 года назад

Its all about preferences man. This stuff fascinate the hell out of me and I love it. There just isn't any money in it unless you are stupid smart (which I am not) or super connected (which I am also not).

@GenkiDamaSSJ 4 года назад

Now I want to see him talk to Eric Weinstein.

@SamirPatnaik 3 года назад

Prodigy is the word

@TheInroad 4 года назад

Imagine creating a robot and then that robot flexes on you by calling you a toilet plunger on a podcast.

@3_up_moon 3 года назад

Is it not a collection of what his critics have said about him? Isnt that how the thing works?

@kalervomaatta5088 10 месяцев назад

@@3_up_moon4:29

@randalltaves6033 4 года назад

Wolfram Alpha is the closest anyone has come to date to creating the Computer on the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek. Amazing effort!

@TheAnbyrley 4 года назад

Wolfram is great for checking your derivations. It has often taught me interesting identities, special functions, and simplifications that I didn't know before.

@ChuckN914 4 года назад

WolframAlpha and Wolfram language are two separate things entierly

@TheAnbyrley 4 года назад

@@ChuckN914 Yes obviously. I mean the software package he is using in the video. For instance, it turned out one expression I derived was an identity for 1/2. That revelation led me to another idea, and another proof and so on. It put some more meat on my Ph.D haha

@bullishtingles1384 4 года назад

This is fascinating. Keep up the great work, Lex.

@aaaarrrg3773 4 года назад

It's a trip how much he's influenced our world and I had no idea who he was till I watched this interview. It's inspired me to relearn math so I can follow this cat's research. I can't thank you enough for this Lex. Keep doing those interviews on Rogan's show, there are a lot of people out there like me who need to be woken up. My brain has gotten lazy over the last few decades and you've helped to rekindle that fire. Watched Wolfram's live Q&A today and the dude is super interesting. He likes to talk, but that's cool, what he has to say is worth hearing. He's good at breaking down information in a way that's palatable to the layman.

@MisterDoctorBaconman 3 года назад

I've been following the streams too, he gets so many questions and all of them require such in depth answers but he also tries his hardest to answer good ones satisfactorily. For me it's great as a source of random new ideas, because he touches on so many different things that it's perfect for when you need to think creatively.

@multiversityx 4 года назад

5:44 a plunger 😂

@garycollins4399 4 года назад

57% a plunger 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TheInroad 4 года назад

Not to mention it was like “and if you’re not a toilet plunger there’s a good chance you’re an ape”

@TurboJon Год назад

Stephen Wolfram is a once in a hundred years genius and visionary who actually takes on and executes big problems. I worry about Wolfram the company and concept when he is no longer with us to provide the thought leadership and vision, maintain the discipline and integrity, and drive its implementation.

@buddyguy7175 3 года назад

I used Mathematica at Ohio State in the Physics department for a whole year in Prof. Greg Kupps physics 260 series. It was quite amazing. It could break down very complex factorization of equations, integrals and even provide a step by step on how it arrived at its solution. It was amazing. One of a kind software.

@makssharma1688 4 года назад

Just amazing how different it is compared to conventional languages, dont understand why this is not as popular as Python or MATLAB when it existed for 33 years! Thank you, Lex, for the enlightening and keep em comin'!!!

@sortof3337 4 года назад

its cause its paid. my scool only has two licenses for 100+ students.

@theadamabrams 4 года назад

Python is free. While MATLAB isn't free, Octave is free and it's very similar. Mathematica is amazing but it's expensive.

@omerresnikoff3565 4 года назад

Also it is a tool whose uses are very limited. You can at least make desktop and CLI tools in Python, Wolfram doesn't have that

@MansoorAman 4 года назад

Expensive and slow would be he main points. Although it is highly expressive, it is very limited in it's scope. In Matlab and Python, you can write your engineering code, and also do the rest of the developer stuff you need (interact with fs, sockets, other device), deploy to hardware, generate code for other platforms, ...

@lawrencejwinkler 2 года назад

@@omerresnikoff3565 Yes you can. The user interface is just another WL (Wolfram Language) sublanguage.

@nullf6950 4 года назад

Wolfram takes many forms including a plunger lol

@rajathshetty325 4 года назад

From Wikipedia: Both Stephen Wolfram and Christopher Wolfram were involved in helping create the alien language for the film Arrival, for which they used the Wolfram Language

@judo-rob5197 4 года назад

When I was in university I used it. It is too expensive for the average person. That in effect limits it's adaption.

@sortof3337 4 года назад

yup.

@HHY623 4 года назад

with wolfram engine + jupyter， you can use WL for free.

@Nick_Tag 4 года назад

It's £20 per month -- I've spent that on Typeform in the past. Might try the engine + jupyter suggestion. In the past I used it to calculate the Shockley-Queisser limit on dye sensitized solar cells and help secure my organisation £50M investment

@sortof3337 4 года назад

@@HHY623 It has the same features as mathmatica and alpha?

@gamesthatmatter9374 4 года назад

its 150 euro for home edition ! And it has ALL features of full edition except cannot be used commercially . Much better than Matlab home edition who sells a gimped version (no code generation , limited numbers of simulink blocks)

@pariscatblue 4 года назад

Lex it was great!, thank you :-)

@ColorsCult 4 года назад

AMAZING! I feel a little guilty for using it as a calculator until now.

@foreverseethe 2 года назад

By my account that is what it is. What did you discover about it from this interview? Can you give another analogy to help others who are genuinely interested in getting their heads around the conceptual idea behind it, without having ever used it?

@jacksonmeeks9313 Год назад

Really late response, but for others who read this - it is a very good language for quickly hashing out ideas. However, I would strongly advise against using it for anything deployment related, or for large programs. It’s a nightmare to debug, once you start getting into larger programs. That’s just my experience, however - so I could be missing something. I think it is, however, a phenomenal tool - just don’t fall into the trap of wanting to create massive systems with it.

@madmonk4214 4 года назад

when the computer thinks u a plunger LMFAO

@SmartK8 4 года назад

Your own program!

@bullishtingles1384 4 года назад

Can you theoretically encode every bit a data you can get about your own biology into this language then use it to test what effects nutrition or other substances may or may not have on your body?

@TheInroad 4 года назад

Not to mention it was like “and if you’re not a toilet plunger, there’s a good chance you’re an ape”

@sherrivonch6231 4 года назад

Goodnight. And I love your podcasts.

@henrikf8777 3 года назад

WolframAlpha is awesome, I don't know how to use the wolfram language, yet, but I really like the underlying broader concept of it.

@swamihuman9395 4 года назад

QUESTION: Any issues w/ SD card reader? Mine is often not read when inserted. Takes multiple tries/fiddling to work. Plus, had print stop, which I think was possibly due to SD card wiggling loose. Hm? TIA.

@swamihuman9395 4 года назад

@jay HAHA! Misplaced comment. Have been using the RU-vid quick playlist feature. Sometimes it goes to the next video, but the comments section doesn't! Thx for alerting me. Off to post to the intended video...

@bobdavis7192 4 года назад

Great Stuff Lex!!! I taught myself basic and wrote a lot of programs for work. I have dabbled in, Java, C, Python and now I guess I need to get a peek at Wolfram. I'll need another pandemic to help me devote the time to it. :oD

@tdmisawesome Год назад

thanks. i listen to your podcast sometimes i like it.

@theonetruemorty4078 3 года назад

I asked Wolfram Alpha "Who's your daddy? and it responded that Stephen and team were, in fact, it's daddy. This was followed by "Show me a plunger," which it did, accompanied by definitions, the first being "someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains." So, I guess that Stephen is a plunger after all. Well played, Alpha. Well played.

@KalebPeters99 2 года назад

Hahah brilliant 😆

@glenneric1 2 года назад

Awesome content.

@BraianDeLeon 4 года назад

Where can I get his Laptop Sticker?

@solidmood2855 4 года назад

someone needs to make a compilation of everytime lex says "well, im russian"

@dickdickson3608 4 года назад

....we like to romanticize things LOL

@aaronsmith6632 3 года назад

Great interview!!! Lex, your show has taken the baton (from Joe Rogan) of the greatest mind-blowing podcast on RU-vid!

@AGI_108 11 месяцев назад

Plunger had me rolling🤣

@thesystemera 4 года назад

Absolutely love this.. Its like Cando Amigy styles of ideas!

@thesystemera 4 года назад

Amiga

@travisfitzwater8093 2 года назад

Dr Wolfram could you please comment on the extent to which the current average daily utilization of Wolfram alfrem represents the totality of the capacity of the servers that you have that you have running from alpha to accommodate traffic meaning if 10 server is a 10 people a day would be the Maxima out of that 10 how many a day would you say utilize the system therefore how much unused capacity is it necessary or would it be necessary to acquire additional users to fill sorry that didn't make sense

@hadee.guitarist 3 года назад

I'm having trouble understanding what he means by a computational contract. Are other smart contracts not computational?

@whosthatguy1 4 года назад

Genuine question: isn’t he just taking datasets aka apis from other languages and including the information in a language that is more command line?

@almor2445 Год назад

Lex, it's time to get him back. Now GPT-4 API has access to Wolfram Alpha, we need to explore what capabilities Machine Learning, LLMs and Wolfram Language/Data can do together. Add a way to increase the character length of replies and a way to store new data as memory and you've got the bulk of AI right there.

@almor2445 Год назад

Get Boston Dynamics involved and get real-world robotic feedback too. :)

@sequeld 4 года назад

This guy is really onto something.

@snehachakraborty7066 4 года назад

I Love Wolfram Language! What a video to make! You took my heart today!

@richyrich8939 4 года назад

🥰

@snehachakraborty7066 4 года назад

@@bhuvaneshs.k638 Even I learnt it a bit and found interesting. I don't use it much though.

@lolgamez9171 4 года назад

@@bhuvaneshs.k638 18:36 as an example

@x0rn312 3 года назад

The thing Wolfram said about needing multiple different competing AI ethics modules is very prescient

@lubomirdinchev334 4 года назад

"Most of the brilliant dreamers give up such a difficult engineering notion at some point." It's death by chasing impossible dreams or death by mediocrity, how could anyone quit....

@damionm121 4 года назад

lubomir dinchev this needs to be on billboards

@OptimusVlad 3 года назад

And that's how Steven Wolfram become known as the 'Plunger'.

@ulfschack 3 года назад

A plunger! Love it XD

@MacarthurLouissaint-rz7tl 4 года назад

I would like to see talk about warp drive technology anti gravity

@evamaclennan8467 4 года назад

Wolfram is so likeable. What a great clip.

@SocialHigh 4 года назад

"A plunger" LMAO sorry

@henrikf8777 3 года назад

Terry Davis was right! Graphics in source code is the way of the future... Sad he won't get to see it. RIP.

@uiuctalkshow Год назад

To learn more Wolfram thoughts on about college, AI, and the Computational Universe. Watch our interview with him.

@bilalmathematician3083 3 года назад

amazing talking

@aucontraire593 4 года назад

WolframAlpha: Look sir, your a plunger! The numbers don't lie! *Existential crises maximizes*

@ChuckN914 4 года назад

I get the joke, just some clarification WolframAlpha and the Wolfram language are 2 different things. WolframAlpha is built from the Wolfram language. His demonstration was in the Wolfram language

@HeliumXenonKrypton 4 года назад

I went to WolframAlpha and asked the following question: "Are probabilistic potentials tangibly real ?" It did not give me an answer. But that's OK because I already have a satisfactory answer, to that question.

@alertbri Год назад

Wolfram language looks initially like a swiss army knife of random computation.

@shreeyatyagi 4 года назад

Computational contracts!

@MassMultiplayer 4 года назад

Drowning tail... so true.. I feel this with art. exausted in dead ends. now i detect them very fast and avoid those Drowning Tail

@Wlodzislaw Год назад

Adding computations to language is a great step forward. Where will it lead us? Exiting times. But it is not quite true that we do not have theory in machine learning, or we do not have anything between neurons and behavior.

@just_A_doctor Год назад

U r wrong we are just using data with human though

@michaelgrayrn4579 4 года назад

Amazing

@uzairakbar6769 4 года назад

Would love to see Bernhard Schölkopf on here one day.

@madmonk4214 4 года назад

thanks wolfram (college student)

@livefree1030 4 года назад

Rob Schneider is a....Carrot!!

@dickdickson3608 4 года назад

i mean he's marketing a product for the top teams and minds - well, that's not going to gain mass adaptation

@de5936 Год назад

Wolfram should mention that Ed Fredkin was ahead of him in this line of thinking!! Give credit, where credit is due.

@EduardoSanchez-in9zj 4 года назад

a plunger LMFAO jajajajaajajaajjaloooooooooooooool

@connorfinnerty1366 4 года назад

I think companies like Wolfram, Mathworks, etc. need to do a better job of reaching out to community colleges and prioritizing the distribution of, and access to, their software there. If he does want to see a world where these types of tools are more widely adopted, community college licensing partnerships is an area where he could focus that would help expose more "normal" people to these kinds of tools.

@MuhammadAli-dk6dz 4 года назад

I would disagree, it is not academia but industry where the target should be. This language can certainly have mass adaptation and the use in the industry determines if the language will have any future or not. Wolfram if start giving incentives to small businesses and market properly to large businesses then its adoption will increase and create opportunities for developers and users of the language.

@connorfinnerty1366 4 года назад

@@MuhammadAli-dk6dz While I agree that industry adoption should be their primary business target, I worry about the difficulty of getting widespread adoption of a technology with a steep difficulty curve. Normal people need constant and regular exposure to these kinds of tools for their increased usage in businesses to not be viewed as nuisance inefficiency by their employers. Wolfram language has the potential to be fun, interesting, and useful for people in everyday ways that is not true of other specialized programming languages/computing platforms. This should be viewed as an opportunity for massive growth broadly in society that will yield massive dividends later on, but with relatively little investment costs.

@MuhammadAli-dk6dz 4 года назад

@@connorfinnerty1366 I worked in a company where I was able to convince them to use Wolfram language and managed to created solutions that they thought wouldn't be possible or would take a very long time. On the other hand in another company, I failed to convince them since they already had joined the cult of python when I entered and all the people sing praises of python like an anthem and refused to even look at Wolfram language.

@Wodepaya 4 года назад

People need to hurry up and learn how to protect themselves against when this will happen. Time is short! It starts with learning how to stay in control of your own

@adam_isaac_mp 2 года назад

This interviewer sounds like he’s doing a James Franco impression lol

@---uw4hs 4 года назад

I wonder what type of watch Lex wears.

@BrianWilcox1976 2 года назад

A roLEX

@christopherho8015 3 года назад

A product running on Wolfram Languages is basically a Jarvis System which doesn't speak

@giovannisantostasi9615 Год назад

And within 2 years we have GPT-4 that addresses most of these questions.

@Show_Cast 10 месяцев назад

Wolfram alpha blew me off. It's a masterpiece

@igormendonca4026 9 месяцев назад

agreeable ESTJ with developed Si and Ne

@curiosguy9852 4 года назад

Get Geoffrey Hinton!

@scorpion6828 4 года назад

He can't sit

@notforever123 3 года назад

5:34 why is this still not a meme?

@mahoneytechnologies657 3 года назад

I remember my first contact with a normal computer, I typed in "Who are you?" Wolfram language might give me an Answer! No Answer so I went to my Assembly language programming class.

@JulianWyzing Месяц назад

I suppose there are some answers to add to that

@bullishtingles1384 4 года назад

Creating a computer language that symbolically hold as much of human knowledge as possible and then applying AI/Machine learning tools to explore all we know.... Is this how we begin to create our own universe?

@wcatcher5622 4 года назад

For someone this intelligent and learned to not understand the adoption curve is hilarious.

@mindeyi 4 года назад

1. Theory of the Universe. 2. Meta-Language for Everything. 3. Goal-Aligment for Life... Basically, the same areas, that I most care about...

@samueloliveira7699 4 года назад

What is the code in Wolfram language that counts: how many times have the words "you know" been used by Stephen Wolfram in this video? 😂

@laughingvampire7555 Год назад

people don't use Wolfram more because the same reason why Smalltalk banished 1. too Expensive for most people to justify it for their job. 2. *not open source* if you are going to advertise yourself as a programming language today, and you are not open source most developers are going to ignore you regardless of how awesome your programming language is. I'm a fanatic of lisp languages and I like Mathematica but is just too expensive for me & I want an open source version of it

@arayiagirmay1406 4 года назад

Wolfram Language should be what Neuralink is working with.

@Anonymous-kj6cu 4 года назад

Godfram

@projectpegasus1297 2 года назад

what would a cat+elaphant=

@Think_Global 4 года назад

The knowledge of the world in a programming language? Does that sound like a simulation alpha?

@iakovspirin2896 4 года назад

So you do BJJ and youre in IT!!!!! I want to be your friend mate hahaha

@laughingvampire7555 Год назад

Wolfram is a Lisp with Meta-Expressions

@emblemcc Год назад

AI: The point is that the AI will be considered human once it will talk in "human" haw, meaning it will answer question in limited way as humans do, while now it tries to answer anything, which is naturally non-human like behavior. Plus and most importantly AI should be able to start do conversation and lead it. So far there is only one way we let the AI to communicate and that is to answer our questions. Plus people still have the notion that it needs to behave as a calculator, always return truthful information while the same thing do no expect from humans. The fact that people think that computer must always respond given question and that it will not harm any living soul is the gateway to oblivion, as this paradigm is applicable only in theory, like working communism, it just not gonna happen as people are not uniform and any consequence is not single output only. Apart from that.. the symbolic features of the Wolfram language is a perfect example how the calculator like computer response is far gone.

@hieudang3078 4 года назад

This dude is smart. I can say that. Lol

@cannaroe1213 4 года назад

I always thought Wolfram Alpha was a forced meme.

@davidh00 2 года назад

Cost is the primary reason for low adoption.

@user-pn7jk9sj8b 2 месяца назад

❤

@carlosgray3107 4 года назад

Wolfram was hacked! You run through these things before getting on camera. Those don't look like the answers he expected!

@Someone-cr8cj 4 года назад

GAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA PLUNGER 57%

@melvynbraithwaite8563 2 года назад

Stephan it is a language as Directed by our Creator at the time of zCreation.Now being ridiculed by "Minions" MBraithwaite Yorkshire Viking

@MuhammadAli-dk6dz 4 года назад

I wish the industry accepts WL and not try to weasel its way out with cheap stuff like python.

@davidh00 2 года назад

I don't think the industry can afford what he's charging.

@MuhammadAli-dk6dz 2 года назад

@@davidh00 The most expensive version is CAD 8,510 for an entire lifetime license for an enterprise private cloud. Are you saying the industry can't afford this?

@davidh00 2 года назад

@@MuhammadAli-dk6dz No. I'm saying developers learning WL can't afford the model where all cloud calls are charged.