Future of Science and Technology Q&A (December 20, 2024)

Stephen Wolfram hosts an unscripted Ask Me Anything about the future of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

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0:00 Stream Begins
6:43 Stephen begins talking
6:55 ​​Do you foresee Notebook assistant breaking out of the notebook in the future? It could be a great general voice assistant which knows about me personally and works like Iron Man's Jarvis.
9:41 Do you think humans will eventually control their own evolution through technology? Can this cause more branches to the human as a species?
16:28 Can you talk about the future of your physics project?
38:02 Stream interrupted
48:37 Stream restarts
50:16 What's the future of an observer?
55:15 In many models of the universe, there are always small variations that lead to a division by zero, which leads the programmer to put in a fix. Could black holes be that fix in our universe?
56:44 What is your prediction for the future of science and technology in 2025?
56:41 What is your prediction for the future of science and technology in 2025?
1:06:13 What is an area physics might leak into that will be unexpected in the future?
1:07:46 Will you ever write another book like A New Kind of Science?
1:11:39 Dr Wolfram could choose a dozen of his blog posts and publish them as a book and it would make a terrific book.
1:12:44 ​​How might LLM enhance future scientific development? What direction do you envision for tools like Mathematica, given that LLMs can interact with humans without requiring them to know how to program?
1:17:06 What is your opinion on ethical frameworks being applied to AI tools? What sort of ethics do you think should be applied when considering machine learning / AI tool research?
1:26:07 End stream


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