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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything—Stephen Wolfram Writings

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Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of building an ever taller tower of science and technology based on that idea of computation. And today I want to tell you some of what that’s led to. There’s a lot to talk about—so I’m going to go quickly… sometimes with just a sentence summarizing what I’ve written a whole book about. You know, I last gave a TED talk thirteen years ago—in February 2010—soon after Wolfram|Alpha launched. And I ended that talk with a question: is computation ultimately what’s underneath everything in our universe? I gave myself a decade to find out. And actually it could have needed a century. But in April 2020—just after the decade mark—we were thrilled to be able to announce what seems to be the ultimate “machine code” of the universe. And, yes, it’s computational. So computation isn’t just a possib

How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything October 27, 2023 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 powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of building an ever taller tower of science and technology based on that idea of computation. And today I want to tell you some of what that’s led to. There’s a lot to talk about—so I’m going to go quickly… sometimes with just a sentenc

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