📚 2 Books mentioned in "Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #376" of Lex Fridman Podcast

This idea captured my attention, so I focused on the picture in the book, trying to understand it better.

In this segment, Lex discusses an idea from a book that piqued his interest, leading him to concentrate on a specific picture within the book as he sought to gain a deeper understanding.

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I’m deeply grateful that you wrote A New Kind of Science, that you explored this mystery of cellular automata and inspired this one little kid in me to pursue artificial intelligence in all this beautiful world.

Lex expresses his gratitude to Stephen Wolfram for authoring 'A New Kind of Science,' highlighting how it inspired his interest in artificial intelligence and the wonders of the world.

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I mean, it's kind of like, like, you know, I think I gave an example of that, the little book I wrote about, about ChatGPT where it's kind of like, you know, Galileo was dropping cannonballs off the different floors of the Tower of Pisa. I read the book, and one significant takeaway for me was the book's claim that this principle of physics could somehow be derived.

Stephen Wolfram discusses an example from his book, highlighting a claim that a principle of physics could be derived. He references this to draw a parallel to how models for neural networks are constructed.

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