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3:30PM ET

October 16, 2024

History of Science and Technology Q&A

October 23, 2024 Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A

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3:30PM ET

November 1, 2024

Science and Technology Q&A for Kids (& Others)

November 8, 2024 Future of Science and Technology Q&A

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Wolfram Technology Conference 2024: Stephen Wolfram's Keynote Address »

Science &
Technology Q&A for Kids & Others

Weekly ask-me-anything about science & technology

History of Science and Technology Q&A

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Future of Science &
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Biweekly ask-me-anything about the future of science & technology

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CEOing

Behind the scenes in real-life software design

Business, Innovation &
Managing Life Q&A

Biweekly ask-me-anything about business, innovation & managing life

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Behind the scenes of previous and current work in various areas of science and research

Personal Video
Worklogs

Raw recordings of work getting done

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Timely explorations, special events and public addresses

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Selected recordings of Q&A and other events

Recent Livestreams

Future of Science & Technology Q&A:

Future of Science and Technology Q&A (October 11, 2024) »

1 hour 24 minutes

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I read that recent advancements in AI research are partly based on McCulloch and Pitts's famous paper on neural nets. Do you think there are more ideas worthwhile to explore again in cybernetics? What is the future of technology about speech recognition? How do I know if I am speaking to a human? The future is crazy! Future of finance! Talk about AI talking to AI for trading. Getting an AI to understand economics seems like it'll be quite a step. What's the difference between a computational and a mathematical model? Have you seen Blaise Agüera y Arcas's recent paper on self-replicating programs? Published on arXiv recently. Wouldn't chaos theory be an example of the computational case? You know the rules of the system but have to set the initial conditions to see how it plays out. How do we prepare for the risk of bots/worms invading everyday life as we become more dependent on technology? View Less »

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Public & Special Events:

Stephen Wolfram Readings: Nestedly Recursive Functions »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 59 minutes

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Live CEOing #855:

Live CEOing Ep 855: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 9 minutes

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Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A:

Business, Innovation and Managing Life (October 9, 2024) »

1 hour 28 minutes

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Can you comment on the recent Nobel Prizes? Do you think you'll ever try to win a Nobel Prize? Are this year's Nobel Prize nominations a kind of interim step towards Nobel Prizes awarded to AI "entities" (rather than programs)? I'm not that fond of prizes, because there's many people out there that deserve it as much as they do. There's no need to waste too much time on it, since they probably already got the recognition. I mean, I'm more interested in understanding the contributions rather than the prizes themselves. Its like... OK. So what? They got a prize that somebody else wanted to give them... What software do you use for the graphs/illustrations in your books? I always find the illustrations in your posts, books, blog to be aesthetically pleasing, and I'd like to reproduce that. The combinations of colors are amazing. Did you take any special course on visual representation of concepts or something? What is your advice for attending technology conferences as a student? Do you have general advice for university students (in my case I am a CS student) that do not necessarily have the confidence to begin a big project? What has made you happy or is the best thing about running a business? What do you think about literature? About fiction books? What are some of your favorite books? What are some you would recommend? Do you think it is important to read fiction? Have you ever been to Japan, Stephen? How did you come up with your new blog about time? Recently some friends' daughter was sharing enthusiastically what she was passionate about career-wise, and it crushed my soul that it was being taken over by AI already... what's one to say? I'm learning about AI models right now. And I've come to the point where I am adjusting hyperparameters a lot, which is driving me nuts. Do you have any advice on what to do with this? What gave you the confidence to work hard on your vision before you saw any external validation/success? What is your advice for the people who are "not good employees"? How do they get to do their own things in their own way, but still contribute value and "make a living"? View Less »

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Live CEOing #854:

Live CEOing Ep 854: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Riffle with Arbitrary Head & More] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 55 minutes

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Live CEOing #853:

Live CEOing Ep 853: Design Review of MoleculeMesh »

with Stephen Wolfram | 24 minutes

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Live CEOing #852:

Live CEOing Ep 852: Design Review of Hypergraph Paclet »

with Stephen Wolfram | 52 minutes

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Live CEOing #851:

Live CEOing Ep 851: Design Review of Special Projects »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 10 minutes

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Live CEOing #850:

Live CEOing Ep 850: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 15 minutes

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Personal Video Worklogs:

October 5, 2024 [On the Nature of Time] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour, 32 minutes

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Live CEOing #849:

Live CEOing Ep 849: Design Review of Mathematical Computation »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 54 minutes

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Live CEOing #848:

Live CEOing Ep 848: Design Review of Machine Learning »

with Stephen Wolfram | 39 minutes

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