5/21/2023 0 Comments Wolframalpha login![]() ![]() And this means that ChatGPT can “talk to” Wolfram|Alpha just like humans do-with Wolfram|Alpha turning the natural language it gets from ChatGPT into precise, symbolic computational language on which it can apply its computational knowledge power.įor decades there’s been a dichotomy in thinking about AI between “statistical approaches” of the kind ChatGPT uses, and “symbolic approaches” that are in effect the starting point for Wolfram|Alpha. But they have a common interface: natural language. Wolfram|Alpha does something very different from ChatGPT, in a very different way. But it’s pretty clear that wonderful things are possible. We’ve just started exploring what this means for ChatGPT. It’s equally, if not more, important for human-like AIs as well-immediately giving them what we can think of as computational knowledge superpowers, that leverage the non-human-like power of structured computation and structured knowledge. And the point is that it’s not just important for us humans. It’s a tremendously powerful way of working. But I can also immediately call on Wolfram Language and Wolfram|Alpha to tap into a kind of unique “computational superpower” that lets me do all sorts of beyond-human things. And in doing this my goal has been to build a system that can “computationally assist”-and augment-what I and others want to do. I myself have been deeply involved with the computational paradigm for many decades, in the singular pursuit of building a computational language to represent as many things in the world as possible in formal symbolic ways. ![]() And indeed one of the great achievements of our civilization over the past several centuries has been to build up the paradigms of mathematics, the exact sciences-and, most importantly, now computation-and to create a tower of capabilities quite different from what pure human-like thinking can achieve. Some of it is instead more formal and structured. And, as I discuss elsewhere, I think its success is probably telling us some very fundamental things about the nature of human thinking.īut while ChatGPT is a remarkable achievement in automating the doing of major human-like things, not everything that’s useful to do is quite so “human like”. Finally, and suddenly, here’s a system that can successfully generate text about almost anything-that’s very comparable to what humans might write. And even having watched developments in the past few years I find the performance of ChatGPT thoroughly remarkable. ![]() I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time (about 43 years, actually). And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » ![]()
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