For some of us. To be precise, for those who own a PC and have internet access, which is more less 2.68 billion of the population, just a third of the whole. Even I would say lucky for those who have electricity access.
+Syn Slonca We're getting there my friend. Capitalism is generally favorable to those more opportunistic countries who have a good relationship to the bigger players like the US, Russia, or China. Other countries are definitely lagging behind, for reasons of which it is not entirely their fault. But as technology continues to advance in those modern countries, its advancements will continue to benefit those at the bottom.
Ziad Hatahet well...seems like he cracked it basically. His approach basically explains/predicts all mayor theories from relativity to quantum physics. Extremely cool and a true potential for a unified theory.
That's part of the problem. Wolfram is a capitalist at heart, like Bill Gates. A theory of everything has to be a theory of everyone. You cannot have it both ways. This is why scientific knowledge is in some ways antithetical to technology, the later needs but also destroys the former. Hegemony and fascism are not compatible with truth, at least long term. The cult of personality, genius, and narcissism is a canard brought to you by the already powerful to justify their power. I doubt a TOE exists, or at least wouldn't want it to exist....look what we have done already with the knowledge of nuclear physics. A TOE could be truly horrifying. We're not ready or perhaps not ready to even understand it because we're looking for something unifying (and hence powerful, hegeomonistic and fascistic) which I doubt that's what is the universe in the end. My hope is that a true TOE, or something as close as possible to it, will more likely be a set of unifying principles that maximizes our knowledge of possible universes/conscious realities including parts of own and others, but calculating or (equivalently) attempting to manipulate or control this will be NP-hard, effectively enforcing free will. In such an understanding, a mouse will not be able to create all of our human universe, but it will be able to create "its" universe...and a TOE would allow a limited understanding of a large zoo of possible solipistic universes/realities for different conscious entities and even conscious states (dreams etc)...with "hopefully" no great unifying principle that will allow one to "conquer", "control", "enslave" (and thereby destroy) any other. If such a project is feasible in this century, it will take a greater understanding and inclusion of not just the insights of one person, culture, or civilization, but rather the entirety of conscious existence "on the level." In other words, any success along these lines will not and perhaps even be limited by taking too seriously the efforts of geniuses like Wolfram, unless we seriously consider those of the mice as well.
@@zackbarkley7593 Thank you for your beautiful comment Zack. I have much to learn -- as evidenced by the fact that I didn't understand the latter half of this on any level deeper than a surface one. But it brought me somewhere quite beautiful, and there's maybe nothing I love more than seeing hegemonic power structures and physics discussed in the same paragraph -- and even connected as ideas!!
I could watch this guy talk for hours. He is bursting with knowledge, ideas and passion. Probably one of the greatest geniuses currently alive. Now i really want to see a few hours long discussion between him and Nathan Myhrvold on a range of topics they find interesting.
@@obbavyakti5805 Tyson is a science communicator, he hasn't achieved anything much in the sphere of research. Wolfram has created Mathematica, and even did research on particle physics at the age of fifteen. Just google him up and look at his many achievements.
It's kinda crazy to think that when this video came out I didn't know any english and now that I'm finally ready to watch it 10 years later my mind is blown
I get the counter-arguments against Wolfram's ideas....BUT....I utterly applaud his exuberance, creative outside-the-box thinking, and passion. So what if he's not 100% right about all this? At least he's willing to ask big questions and seek big answers. The people who truly revolutionize our paradigms are always people willing to take risks. People who avoid failure and being wrong are never the ones who change the world. I find Stephen Wolfram inspiring....he's a truly intelligent guy with a radical perspective. It's refreshing to see someone explore far-out ideas. Too many people today seem content with playing it safe...while looking down on those who take real risks. Personally, I'm in awe of the people willing to take those risks. There's nothing inspiring about someone who's worried about making mistakes. Intelligent creative people love mistakes....because a mistake leads to new ideas. If you never make mistakes or try out crazy ideas, you never know what you might be missing. I'm not mathematically adept enough to understand all of what Wolfram is proposing, but from what I do understand it seems he's on to something. Glad there are people like him willing to be adventurous. Fuck the nay-sayers. ^__^
@@obbavyakti5805 till a few years back the internet was looked down upon, however the businesses that didn't not accept the internet were the ones that ended up dying. OP here, makes very valid point about the challenging theories and trying to come to a conclusion. Stephen Wolfram is certainly not stupid let alone dumb. He has a huge company, in which scientists and physicists working around multiple ideas. You just dismissing it certainly makes zero difference to what the future beholds, but the reason I am commenting here is because the mindset of dismissing anything until its proven can be scary. No science teaches misinformation, however neither does it appreciate people looking down up novel ideas and technologies. The theory of relativity, black holes were such weird concepts that had not been proven and by many just dismissed. And what do you even mean by real mathematics? And if Wolfram Alpha was a sugar coated hoax there is no reason for the engine powering it to be used by countries and companies to predict their economical backing and future stock fluctuations.
Absolutely wonderful ideas. Very interesting concept... take the idea of different rule sets and the two dimensional cellular automata, and expand it to "reality creation." The key is the understanding that simple rules can lead to incredible complexity. I wish Stephen, and us, all the luck.
Dr. Stephen Wolfram is assuredly a polymath, and more. To bring us such a reach new tools into our everyday life is more than one could expect. The fact that his reach is far deeper than one might easily perceive is another sign of his intellectual proves. Let’s thank him for his efforts and work in the past in let him know, that we are gratefully expecting more in the future. Yours, Darko Fius
18:50 Benoit B. Mandelbrot is in the audience - woah Wiki: Benoit B. Mandelbrot : 20 November 1924 - 14 October 2010 This video upload date: 27 April 2010 (youtube, stop showing me the illogical date format PLEASE)
Mathematica is incredible. It doesn't just do your calculus homework.. it actually shows you the steps to get the answer yourself. I highly suggest playing around with 3d plots (search "plot sin x cos y" on Wolfram Alpha).
Wolfram talks go like - "I'm pretty amazing and was doing particle physics when I was a kid" *shows some pretty graphs of cellular automata and makes some hand-wavy comments about computational equivalence* "Actually, I've created a new science, and soon I'll have a theory of everything" *talks about a search engine he created and shows straightforward NLU and search engine capabilities* *audience applauds * "Thank you". I love his knowledge, and his passion for the history of science and making all knowledge readily available via Wolfram Alpha. His work over several decades on Mathematica is far reaching and inspiring, but the claims of revolutionising science and changing the way we understand the universe through computation are so over the top.
@@snarkyboojum Considered that it *might* be because you don't grasp the implications? I was actually looking for his humble brag in this presentation, and although he mentioned that he was involved in physics, he doesn't actually talk about the fact that he was gifted.. Obviously it's implied, but then it would be almost intolerable for someone of his talent to spend any energy trying to be modest. I think he's just excited!
@@tinypace I have considered that, but I've watched a lot of material by him, and others, and I still don't buy the claims. This presentation doesn't do anything to change that - which was my main point.
Its a great addition in the complicated world of modelling and testing. No matter either Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, or Engineers want to use it. Its for everyone to open the close eyes of the world.
Wolfram Alpha is really quite useful. In his TED Talk, Stephen Wolfram puts this platform into the larger context of computational science which he has spent his career developing. Definitely worth a watch!
wolfram is a hero for our time. Wolfram alpha is epic because you can do integration and it shows you all the steps. I got A's on my exams in calc 2 and 3 because of this.
i love seeing someone get this excited over science and discovery and stuff. it wasnt long ago that i didnt know of anyone who got so excited over that kind of stuff other than me (even though i dont understand most of it haha)......by the way wolfram alpha is AMAZING
I can't say I completely understand everything in this presentation. However, one thing that comes through is the idea of solving problems...."from the opposite direction." I find that fascinating....this might turn out to have been a historic talk!
I'm completely blown away. This guy will stand alongside Newton, Darwin, Einstein and Turing as one of the greatest contributors to human progress and civilization.
This was a really enlightening talk on computational theory and I really enjoyed it. It has changed my perspective on my understanding of artificial intelligence and computational models.
👏👏👏👐👐. This is exactly the path my intuition has been leading me down. This talk lay the concepts down so well and helped clarify my thoughts while sending chills down my spine. At least I know my imagination wasn't running away with me aimlessly. Ah, I've gained whole new clarity and certainty.
@GGAlice1 It is a list of instructions to generate the next level. Basically what is says is: "Fort this combination of squares on the last level, make this square on the next" where the combination in the last level is any sequence of three squares in a row and the next square is the square that is directly below the three above (in the center).
Thank you for making my life simplier your programs helps to check if I done my math exercice correctly. I know your invention wasn't to be made and you sacrifice your time on it. Mankind need more people like you Dr Stephen Wolfram!!!!!!!!! But I am curious who must hate this kind of achievement!! At the moment that I write this comment there is 94 dislikes?? How awful can people be!!!!!!!
akiru bamiru I seriously doubt he has to _"sacrifice"_ time or anything else in order to do this work. Not doing it is the sacrifice. He's prolly making a sacrifice to stand in front of an audience who may or may not understand its value when he'd rather be home working on it. The price of the product is a _HUGE_ problem for a lot of people. I think that is what the dislikes are mainly about. And then there are the trolls who like to screw up algos just for fun...
Sometimes kids roam about and press wrong buttons! Nothing to worry about! People are not so awful. Those who understand the talk sure love it. others just walk on ...
OH MY GOD.......I've checked the website......It's like my math dream come true.......It's like the new Wikipedia but simpler and straight to the point.......Great Job
I hope to pick up where this man may leave off, or be a student to him a few years from now. After I read "a new kind of science" I was blown away at the hypothesis that our universe can be computatable due to fractal mathematics. I just love it, I love that we are getting close to a unified theory of everything, and fractals will get us there.
Can someone tell me what he is referring to when he says "a bunch of new ideas about linguistics that came from studying the computational universe" at 9:07?
@Bunji2k6 Compilation errors are pretty much universally easy to fix. For a compilation error to exist the compiler must have identified the error, and if you know what's wrong, it's easy to fix. Post-compilation issues are the problem. :)
This video has got me thinking, however. In order to make correct calculations, you need to use the correct data, mathematics. A computer can compute mathematical results, but it doesnt seem capable of comparing real data to invalid (but computable) data. It will calculate both results without complaint, but the answer it gives could be flawed. Also, its strange but with all the experience i have with computers; my idea is that even pure calculations tend to bend towards chaos in the long run.
If you go to any university today in the library you can't go 20 minutes without hearing someone say Wolfram's name (because of wolfram alpha, best tool ever).
Amazing video. It's amazing to think how simple local rules can create complex self-built structures that "emerge" automatically. The ramified, almost "zoological" forms presented by Wolfram reminded me of the "biomorphs" created by Ricard Dawkins trough computer simulations back in his 1986 book, "The Blind Watchmaker". A similar thought can be applied to embryonic development and the evolution of animal body plans too.
I've noticed as I've researched stuff online, thinking I'm ahead of the game, there are patterns I find through comments where others have followed a similar trail I have. Perhaps this is the work of social engineering and it has been pre-determined what we will search. Somewhere up the hierarchy it's as if super-intelligence is dictating our lives. I went from Aubrey de Grey to Ray Kurzweil to this, these past couple weeks. de Grey inspired me, but Kurzweil revolutionized my worldview...
this is related to cymatics i think, a lot of the really old temples and stuff have crazy geometrical shapes painted on them in impossibly accurate mathematical patterns, the patterns already exist in nature you just have to find them, they vibrate sand on platforms and it makes shapes based on the pitch it's crazy
I've read this guys book, and it's basically one idea repeated throughout the whole book. the amount of knowledge you'd gain by reading his book isn't much more than what he showed you in this talk.
Google has always been my homepage ever since I can remember, Wolfram Alpha has become a close second in the most visited webpage I use for searching information. :)
How interesting is to watch as he exhibits his unshakable confidence and noticing that the world went all along in the complete opposite direction in terms of knowledge production and aggregation (with wikis, collaborations in general and now blockchain), a direction that no individualist project as his can ever meet. Therapy is the missing element here. Seeing his egomania in honest perspective would help him achieve true wisdom; if there’s no time for that, he could at least watch some of Chomsky’s et. al master classes in humbleness. And that, perhaps, could inspire a pathway by which he could one day become comparable to some of the great thinkers of our times, which all understand that the world is always too vast in comparison to any individual contribution. Arrogance + time: convergence to ridiculous.
18:01 It seems like a better answer would have been to point out that if we consider our universe as the resulting fractal pattern, Stephen is trying to exhaustively search all of the generators of complexity to find the one that generates it.
And that's just the Mathematica code for it, and this was back in 2010. There'd most likely be even more code in other programming languages as well. It's amazing!
this is pure genius...i love it. figure out the universe in which we live by creating countless random ones based on simple figures...the entire universe as we know it, in it's amazing complexities is born in simplicity. imagine somebody holding a marble full of numbers and throwing into a pond and saying "go"
@SergSpace But to get there you have to provide and constantly support these conditions like his program does drawing nothing more but the triangle in the end. To build more complex mechanism you gonna need more complex program. And itt not gonna be created by itself. The complexity is in the motive and sufficiency. What provides conditions, what leads to a certain structure, what stops a program when certain shape is taken?
"Fractals" are simply a mathematical model. They were theoretical until computing software, like his search engine, allowed scientists to study them. There is the connection you seem to have missed, he is saying that this new software is finally allowing us to understand nature.
My guess: in 130 +- 30 years the universe will understand itself. Considering that we are pieces of the universe that don't quite know themselves, but whose identity is ultimately 'the universe itself', I must say: I can't wait to understand myself! :)
i think the better way to explain it is the basic construct that is used in lambda calculus can be used as key tool where the basic propositional calculus or predicate calculus where logic can be used as an computation where and and nand and xnor gate can be used to compute any thing from strings or numbers or anything but the basic construct which is not being any of the wolfram video please tell it in another video if iam wrong be kind and correct me where the schools teach computers as pure number system but functional programming and cellular automata tells that gates and every thing used in computation is a function but dont even try to open the mathematical portal from here because the inversion is not allowed as function in lambda calculus but in group theory it does switching a number and getting a answer is thought in many schools but composition of function which does the magic makes Turing complete from gta to arithmetic and even word-processing is done by considering everything and a function and construct are developed and a higher grammar is used in computation even 1 2 3 and even everything is an function from true and false are also function which are developed but how the cellular automata is related the rules are related to lambda calculus and physics the rules emanate from simple rules but not hard encoded or is inside the code and after the graphs develop emanate and develop the computational algorithm and theory is enumerated no video in you tube tells this basic information correctly i guess if i am wrong please correct me i never shy away to learn even i fail
I think Wolfram would benefit from a touch of modesty here. The ASA has video from 1972 of remarkable graphical data visualization software developed at Stanford by the phenomenal J.W. Tukey and his colleagues. Mr. Wolfram, the software you're working on is useful, but truly, you stand on the shoulders of giants.
Ever since seeing pics of the Mandelbrot set, I've thought that it was a universe unto itself and wondered if our own universe was similar in that, at it's heart, there is a simple set of rules that produced its vast complexity just as there is a simple set of rules that produce the M set's vast complexity. If so, can we discover the rules by a sort of reverse engineering process? This would be akin to discovering the simple mathematical rules of the M set by a picture of it. Possible?
Wolfram is living proof of how awesome the times we're living are.
For some of us. To be precise, for those who own a PC and have internet access, which is more less 2.68 billion of the population, just a third of the whole. Even I would say lucky for those who have electricity access.
+Syn Slonca We're getting there my friend. Capitalism is generally favorable to those more opportunistic countries who have a good relationship to the bigger players like the US, Russia, or China. Other countries are definitely lagging behind, for reasons of which it is not entirely their fault. But as technology continues to advance in those modern countries, its advancements will continue to benefit those at the bottom.
no, it won't.
Wait until you hear about ChatGPT
And 10 years later, they're managing the imposible... This is amazing!!
Erik Coll He gots it
Has something happened recently since this talk?
Ziad Hatahet well...seems like he cracked it basically. His approach basically explains/predicts all mayor theories from relativity to quantum physics. Extremely cool and a true potential for a unified theory.
@@nickbroekman9360 Do you have any resources to read up on new developments?
Ziad Hatahet No but there is an extensive 3 hour intervieuw this month with Lex you can find on YT about this..
Y cumplio su palabra 10 años despues... He kept his word 10 years later... amazing...
hermosa teoría la de wolfram
@@subernasterd2727 si!!
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Open-sourcing wolfram alpha technologies would be an incredible thing for the world
THIS.
That's part of the problem. Wolfram is a capitalist at heart, like Bill Gates. A theory of everything has to be a theory of everyone. You cannot have it both ways. This is why scientific knowledge is in some ways antithetical to technology, the later needs but also destroys the former. Hegemony and fascism are not compatible with truth, at least long term. The cult of personality, genius, and narcissism is a canard brought to you by the already powerful to justify their power. I doubt a TOE exists, or at least wouldn't want it to exist....look what we have done already with the knowledge of nuclear physics. A TOE could be truly horrifying. We're not ready or perhaps not ready to even understand it because we're looking for something unifying (and hence powerful, hegeomonistic and fascistic) which I doubt that's what is the universe in the end. My hope is that a true TOE, or something as close as possible to it, will more likely be a set of unifying principles that maximizes our knowledge of possible universes/conscious realities including parts of own and others, but calculating or (equivalently) attempting to manipulate or control this will be NP-hard, effectively enforcing free will. In such an understanding, a mouse will not be able to create all of our human universe, but it will be able to create "its" universe...and a TOE would allow a limited understanding of a large zoo of possible solipistic universes/realities for different conscious entities and even conscious states (dreams etc)...with "hopefully" no great unifying principle that will allow one to "conquer", "control", "enslave" (and thereby destroy) any other. If such a project is feasible in this century, it will take a greater understanding and inclusion of not just the insights of one person, culture, or civilization, but rather the entirety of conscious existence "on the level." In other words, any success along these lines will not and perhaps even be limited by taking too seriously the efforts of geniuses like Wolfram, unless we seriously consider those of the mice as well.
@@zackbarkley7593 Thank you for your beautiful comment Zack. I have much to learn -- as evidenced by the fact that I didn't understand the latter half of this on any level deeper than a surface one.
But it brought me somewhere quite beautiful, and there's maybe nothing I love more than seeing hegemonic power structures and physics discussed in the same paragraph -- and even connected as ideas!!
@@thoughtsfromahead Thanks. It got a bit obtuse in the end... :)
@@zackbarkley7593 thank you for your comment.
I'm so happy to live in the same century this man lives.
I could watch this guy talk for hours. He is bursting with knowledge, ideas and passion. Probably one of the greatest geniuses currently alive.
Now i really want to see a few hours long discussion between him and Nathan Myhrvold on a range of topics they find interesting.
He is not more of a genius than say, Neil de Grass Tyson: big words, no real knowledge to back it all up.
@@obbavyakti5805 Tyson is a science communicator, he hasn't achieved anything much in the sphere of research. Wolfram has created Mathematica, and even did research on particle physics at the age of fifteen. Just google him up and look at his many achievements.
World takes 10 years to understand this... amazing
It's kinda crazy to think that when this video came out I didn't know any english and now that I'm finally ready to watch it 10 years later my mind is blown
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Search for his podcast with Lex Fridman
This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time. This is human changing stuff.
And he did it
Genius. I tried pulling data on some really remote places in the world and it still gave me a clear outcome direct from the source. Good stuff.
I get the counter-arguments against Wolfram's ideas....BUT....I utterly applaud his exuberance, creative outside-the-box thinking, and passion. So what if he's not 100% right about all this? At least he's willing to ask big questions and seek big answers. The people who truly revolutionize our paradigms are always people willing to take risks. People who avoid failure and being wrong are never the ones who change the world. I find Stephen Wolfram inspiring....he's a truly intelligent guy with a radical perspective. It's refreshing to see someone explore far-out ideas. Too many people today seem content with playing it safe...while looking down on those who take real risks. Personally, I'm in awe of the people willing to take those risks.
There's nothing inspiring about someone who's worried about making mistakes. Intelligent creative people love mistakes....because a mistake leads to new ideas. If you never make mistakes or try out crazy ideas, you never know what you might be missing.
I'm not mathematically adept enough to understand all of what Wolfram is proposing, but from what I do understand it seems he's on to something. Glad there are people like him willing to be adventurous. Fuck the nay-sayers. ^__^
He doesn't have anything to do with real mathematics.
WolframAlpha is a sugar-coated hoax.
@@obbavyakti5805 till a few years back the internet was looked down upon, however the businesses that didn't not accept the internet were the ones that ended up dying. OP here, makes very valid point about the challenging theories and trying to come to a conclusion. Stephen Wolfram is certainly not stupid let alone dumb. He has a huge company, in which scientists and physicists working around multiple ideas.
You just dismissing it certainly makes zero difference to what the future beholds, but the reason I am commenting here is because the mindset of dismissing anything until its proven can be scary. No science teaches misinformation, however neither does it appreciate people looking down up novel ideas and technologies.
The theory of relativity, black holes were such weird concepts that had not been proven and by many just dismissed.
And what do you even mean by real mathematics? And if Wolfram Alpha was a sugar coated hoax there is no reason for the engine powering it to be used by countries and companies to predict their economical backing and future stock fluctuations.
Progress is always done by so called “heretics”. Look up the history of science. Bruno got burnt alive saying the earth went around the sun. 🤯
And today in Covid times, he came out with the way to acomplish the idea
how ?
@@urigeheadmot1196 th-cam.com/video/rbfFt2uNEyQ/w-d-xo.html Here!
And this dude just did it in the middle of the covid19 pandemic
Jus like Newton did
That is a real scientist. Respect and honor to him a lot.
This talk reminded me of Benoit Mandelbrot's work. So cool that he was in the audience.
Absolutely wonderful ideas. Very interesting concept... take the idea of different rule sets and the two dimensional cellular automata, and expand it to "reality creation." The key is the understanding that simple rules can lead to incredible complexity. I wish Stephen, and us, all the luck.
Dr. Stephen Wolfram is assuredly a polymath, and more. To bring us such a reach new tools into our everyday life is more than one could expect. The fact that his reach is far deeper than one might easily perceive is another sign of his intellectual proves. Let’s thank him for his efforts and work in the past in let him know, that we are gratefully expecting more in the future.
Yours, Darko Fius
Your so right!
Looks like Dilbert's boss has finally found Transcendence.
18:50 Benoit B. Mandelbrot is in the audience - woah
Wiki: Benoit B. Mandelbrot : 20 November 1924 - 14 October 2010
This video upload date: 27 April 2010 (youtube, stop showing me the illogical date format PLEASE)
Mathematica is incredible. It doesn't just do your calculus homework.. it actually shows you the steps to get the answer yourself. I highly suggest playing around with 3d plots (search "plot sin x cos y" on Wolfram Alpha).
Simply beautiful. A genius. The whole world will change because of him.
We're getting closer to the scenario in Issac Asimov's short story "The Last Question."
i was thinking the same jaja
Here we go!
Wolfram talks go like - "I'm pretty amazing and was doing particle physics when I was a kid" *shows some pretty graphs of cellular automata and makes some hand-wavy comments about computational equivalence* "Actually, I've created a new science, and soon I'll have a theory of everything" *talks about a search engine he created and shows straightforward NLU and search engine capabilities* *audience applauds * "Thank you".
I love his knowledge, and his passion for the history of science and making all knowledge readily available via Wolfram Alpha. His work over several decades on Mathematica is far reaching and inspiring, but the claims of revolutionising science and changing the way we understand the universe through computation are so over the top.
He might have just done it. So far, it looks like hi actually did it.
Alexandru Jalea yeah maybe, but it’s pretty unclear atm, at least to me - and even if true, isn’t represented well in talks like this one.
@@snarkyboojum Considered that it *might* be because you don't grasp the implications? I was actually looking for his humble brag in this presentation, and although he mentioned that he was involved in physics, he doesn't actually talk about the fact that he was gifted.. Obviously it's implied, but then it would be almost intolerable for someone of his talent to spend any energy trying to be modest. I think he's just excited!
@@tinypace I have considered that, but I've watched a lot of material by him, and others, and I still don't buy the claims. This presentation doesn't do anything to change that - which was my main point.
@@snarkyboojum Mmmm, you're probably right.
I truly think we might be in front of the greatest mind of this century, and even one of the greatest in human history... what a time to be alive!
Its a great addition in the complicated world of modelling and testing. No matter either Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, or Engineers want to use it. Its for everyone to open the close eyes of the world.
Wolfram Alpha is really quite useful. In his TED Talk, Stephen Wolfram puts this platform into the larger context of computational science which he has spent his career developing. Definitely worth a watch!
I've never seen a bigger standing ovation! NEVER !!!
Brilliant
wolfram is a hero for our time. Wolfram alpha is epic because you can do integration and it shows you all the steps. I got A's on my exams in calc 2 and 3 because of this.
This is….sad.
That’s the ancestor of ChatGPT: Wolfram Alpha.
i love seeing someone get this excited over science and discovery and stuff. it wasnt long ago that i didnt know of anyone who got so excited over that kind of stuff other than me (even though i dont understand most of it haha)......by the way wolfram alpha is AMAZING
I can't say I completely understand everything in this presentation. However, one thing that comes through is the idea of solving problems...."from the opposite direction." I find that fascinating....this might turn out to have been a historic talk!
I'm completely blown away. This guy will stand alongside Newton, Darwin, Einstein and Turing as one of the greatest contributors to human progress and civilization.
This talk was given 12 years ago? WOW!
This was a really enlightening talk on computational theory and I really enjoyed it. It has changed my perspective on my understanding of artificial intelligence and computational models.
Good work Stephan Wolfram!
i listen to Stephen Wolfram podcasts regularly. What a great intelligent man
Wolfram Alpha is not a project, it is the Google of the future, and the world in a nutshell. Well played sir. A life well spent.
8:00 - glitch in Matrix?
3:41 (record scratch) yep, that's me. You might be wondering how I got myself into this situation
Awesome learning, thank you for having Stephen Wolfram while still alive. God bless!
10 años después me sale recomendado el video. El mejor TedTalk que he visto 😊
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👏👏👏👐👐. This is exactly the path my intuition has been leading me down. This talk lay the concepts down so well and helped clarify my thoughts while sending chills down my spine. At least I know my imagination wasn't running away with me aimlessly. Ah, I've gained whole new clarity and certainty.
@GGAlice1 It is a list of instructions to generate the next level. Basically what is says is: "Fort this combination of squares on the last level, make this square on the next" where the combination in the last level is any sequence of three squares in a row and the next square is the square that is directly below the three above (in the center).
Haha, love how Benoit always makes sure he gets a mention!
this dudes voice just makes the vid that much better. brilliant.
8:28 didn't know wolfram alfa was so great and so much generalised
wolframalpha has saved me in math quite a bit. i love it.
At about 3:00 : 'I created a whole new kind of science'
And everybody laughs.
Priceless.
Thank you for making my life simplier your programs helps to check if I done my math exercice correctly.
I know your invention wasn't to be made and you sacrifice your time on it. Mankind need more people like you Dr Stephen Wolfram!!!!!!!!!
But I am curious who must hate this kind of achievement!! At the moment that I write this comment there is 94 dislikes?? How awful can people be!!!!!!!
akiru bamiru
I seriously doubt he has to _"sacrifice"_ time or anything else in order to do this work. Not doing it is the sacrifice. He's prolly making a sacrifice to stand in front of an audience who may or may not understand its value when he'd rather be home working on it.
The price of the product is a _HUGE_ problem for a lot of people. I think that is what the dislikes are mainly about. And then there are the trolls who like to screw up algos just for fun...
achieving such an extraordinary things is no a sacrifice, if that's what you call sacrifice than everything we do is a sacrifice too
Sometimes kids roam about and press wrong buttons! Nothing to worry about! People are not so awful. Those who understand the talk sure love it. others just walk on ...
OH MY GOD.......I've checked the website......It's like my math dream come true.......It's like the new Wikipedia but simpler and straight to the point.......Great Job
Even as a physics major doing really complicated stuff this thing is amazingly reliable
I have forgotten this lecture since I added into my playlist. I played this day and it was so helpful. I lv yu bro! thank you so much!
Just checked out the Wolfram music generator. Never been so disappointed.
It sounds like the demo songs on the £3 keyboard i had as a kid.
Yes.. TED-Talk with Stephen Wolfram.. about time!
thank you TED!
I witnessed true, original genius on internet after a pretty long time. I'm in awe of his genius. Thank you TH-cam and thank you TED.
If only John Wheeler was alive to hear this talk. He was the fellow who coined the term "it from bit".
I hope to pick up where this man may leave off, or be a student to him a few years from now. After I read "a new kind of science" I was blown away at the hypothesis that our universe can be computatable due to fractal mathematics. I just love it, I love that we are getting close to a unified theory of everything, and fractals will get us there.
hey wolfram, thanks for doing my homework!
Can someone tell me what he is referring to when he says "a bunch of new ideas about linguistics that came from studying the computational universe" at 9:07?
@Bunji2k6 Compilation errors are pretty much universally easy to fix. For a compilation error to exist the compiler must have identified the error, and if you know what's wrong, it's easy to fix. Post-compilation issues are the problem. :)
excellent
Wolfram Alpha is a SIGNIFICANT contribution. It's basically an intelligent encyclopedia.
A Great Presentation As Always.
Im here going to community college..watching these videos definitely inspire me to do more.
anything left to do?
This video has got me thinking, however. In order to make correct calculations, you need to use the correct data, mathematics. A computer can compute mathematical results, but it doesnt seem capable of comparing real data to invalid (but computable) data. It will calculate both results without complaint, but the answer it gives could be flawed.
Also, its strange but with all the experience i have with computers; my idea is that even pure calculations tend to bend towards chaos in the long run.
If you go to any university today in the library you can't go 20 minutes without hearing someone say Wolfram's name (because of wolfram alpha, best tool ever).
Amazing video. It's amazing to think how simple local rules can create complex self-built structures that "emerge" automatically. The ramified, almost "zoological" forms presented by Wolfram reminded me of the "biomorphs" created by Ricard Dawkins trough computer simulations back in his 1986 book, "The Blind Watchmaker". A similar thought can be applied to embryonic development and the evolution of animal body plans too.
I've noticed as I've researched stuff online, thinking I'm ahead of the game, there are patterns I find through comments where others have followed a similar trail I have. Perhaps this is the work of social engineering and it has been pre-determined what we will search. Somewhere up the hierarchy it's as if super-intelligence is dictating our lives. I went from Aubrey de Grey to Ray Kurzweil to this, these past couple weeks. de Grey inspired me, but Kurzweil revolutionized my worldview...
big dreams, thats what i like about ted. I want more ted taloks like this, like it used to be. Help humanity progress.
this is related to cymatics i think, a lot of the really old temples and stuff have crazy geometrical shapes painted on them in impossibly accurate mathematical patterns, the patterns already exist in nature you just have to find them, they vibrate sand on platforms and it makes shapes based on the pitch it's crazy
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AlienGamer
LOL
Jennifer Grove :-)
+AlienGamer duh,
+AlienGamer www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=42Try this! Unfortunately Wolfram alpha doesn't seem to understand your humor :(
+Piyo Hoge :)
I've read this guys book, and it's basically one idea repeated throughout the whole book. the amount of knowledge you'd gain by reading his book isn't much more than what he showed you in this talk.
Google has always been my homepage ever since I can remember, Wolfram Alpha has become a close second in the most visited webpage I use for searching information. :)
"I could go into this with great complexity, but I won't!"
Awwwh! Please do? D:
I love how TED talks consistently destroy my brain...
How interesting is to watch as he exhibits his unshakable confidence and noticing that the world went all along in the complete opposite direction in terms of knowledge production and aggregation (with wikis, collaborations in general and now blockchain), a direction that no individualist project as his can ever meet. Therapy is the missing element here. Seeing his egomania in honest perspective would help him achieve true wisdom; if there’s no time for that, he could at least watch some of Chomsky’s et. al master classes in humbleness. And that, perhaps, could inspire a pathway by which he could one day become comparable to some of the great thinkers of our times, which all understand that the world is always too vast in comparison to any individual contribution.
Arrogance + time: convergence to ridiculous.
There are many ways to attack his ideas of computation but u seem to have gone completely off tangent with a ridiculous criticism.
18:01 It seems like a better answer would have been to point out that if we consider our universe as the resulting fractal pattern, Stephen is trying to exhaustively search all of the generators of complexity to find the one that generates it.
0:01 yes, Ken Robinson - he was nice. i kinda miss him.
And that's just the Mathematica code for it, and this was back in 2010. There'd most likely be even more code in other programming languages as well. It's amazing!
this is pure genius...i love it. figure out the universe in which we live by creating countless random ones based on simple figures...the entire universe as we know it, in it's amazing complexities is born in simplicity. imagine somebody holding a marble full of numbers and throwing into a pond and saying "go"
Wolfram: "be able to type into Wolfram Alpha, "The theory of the universe"
People: *LOL*
...
he was fucking serious
what is the algorithm called at 11:11? i want to know!
11:00 that looks very much like julia
11:04 i remember seeing this type of video in 3B1B (iirc) on fractals
@SergSpace But to get there you have to provide and constantly support these conditions like his program does drawing nothing more but the triangle in the end. To build more complex mechanism you gonna need more complex program. And itt not gonna be created by itself. The complexity is in the motive and sufficiency. What provides conditions, what leads to a certain structure, what stops a program when certain shape is taken?
bring back TED talks with a computer
THANKS for sharing!!
wow - this is an astonishing talk from a first rate genius
I write essays on Black Hole Thermodynamics.
I like the Mr Men books, ABBA and Fish and Chips.
"Fractals" are simply a mathematical model. They were theoretical until computing software, like his search engine, allowed scientists to study them. There is the connection you seem to have missed, he is saying that this new software is finally allowing us to understand nature.
This dude is a genius. It's mind-boggling to me what Wolfram Alpha is capable of.
Search: [Theory of the universe]
Result: [We don't know yet...]
xD
Try to search again.. :0
Answer: God
This is what the internet is for...watching ted and learning.
My guess: in 130 +- 30 years the universe will understand itself. Considering that we are pieces of the universe that don't quite know themselves, but whose identity is ultimately 'the universe itself', I must say: I can't wait to understand myself! :)
I just had this same thought today 😮
wow this is very interesting. does this remove the design argument?
i think the better way to explain it is the basic construct that is used in lambda calculus can be used as key tool where the basic propositional calculus or predicate calculus where logic can be used as an computation where and and nand and xnor gate can be used to compute any thing from strings or numbers or anything but the basic construct which is not being any of the wolfram video please tell it in another video if iam wrong be kind and correct me where the schools teach computers as pure number system but functional programming and cellular automata tells that gates and every thing used in computation is a function but dont even try to open the mathematical portal from here because the inversion is not allowed as function in lambda calculus but in group theory it does switching a number and getting a answer is thought in many schools but composition of function which does the magic makes Turing complete from gta to arithmetic and even word-processing is done by considering everything and a function and construct are developed and a higher grammar is used in computation even 1 2 3 and even everything is an function from true and false are also function which are developed but how the cellular automata is related the rules are related to lambda calculus and physics the rules emanate from simple rules but not hard encoded or is inside the code and after the graphs develop emanate and develop the computational algorithm and theory is enumerated no video in you tube tells this basic information correctly i guess if i am wrong please correct me i never shy away to learn even i fail
Looked him up on wikipedia: got bored with quantum mechanics at 16, PhD at 20. He really is Sheldon Cooper.
8:04
Now I see why it is so expensive. You have to buy the data - at the going rate.
So much for democratizing it.
Jennifer Grove
12:33
That's the piece of code that I needed the week before last. :-/
Wolfram alpha is available as an app for smartphones. It's not expensive.
wolfram alpha did all my math homework this semester, calc 2!!
There was a very similar TED talk to this one not too long ago.
I think Wolfram would benefit from a touch of modesty here. The ASA has video from 1972 of remarkable graphical data visualization software developed at Stanford by the phenomenal J.W. Tukey and his colleagues. Mr. Wolfram, the software you're working on is useful, but truly, you stand on the shoulders of giants.
Ever since seeing pics of the Mandelbrot set, I've thought that it was a universe unto itself and wondered if our own universe was similar in that, at it's heart, there is a simple set of rules that produced its vast complexity just as there is a simple set of rules that produce the M set's vast complexity. If so, can we discover the rules by a sort of reverse engineering process? This would be akin to discovering the simple mathematical rules of the M set by a picture of it. Possible?