Podcast appearances and mentions of Stephen Wolfram

British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physicist, writer and businessman (born 1959)

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Latest podcast episodes about Stephen Wolfram

Into the Impossible
Harvard's Steven Pinker Explains The Dark Side of AI Hallucinations

Into the Impossible

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2025 1:17


The Dark Side of AI Hallucinations & Tech Predictions Watch the full episode with Steven Pinker here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP_0MpESQy0 Get my book FOCUS LIKE A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER on sale now, only for just 99 cents https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Join this channel to get access to perks like monthly Office Hours: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life Part 7

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 116:16


By popular demand, Stephen Wolfram explores anecdotes and stories from his life.Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YaSmXHHa0ng

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life Part 8

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 134:53


By popular demand, Stephen Wolfram explores anecdotes and stories from his life.Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5ctmcRxEiYU

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life Part 6

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2025 75:17


By popular demand, Stephen Wolfram explores anecdotes and stories from his life.Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eW7yp6x1jC0

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life Part 1

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 98:17


By popular demand, Stephen Wolfram explores anecdotes and stories from his life.Watch the original livestream on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/2oe4prdLzDI

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life Part 2

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 98:25


By popular demand, Stephen Wolfram explores anecdotes and stories from his life.Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9MTJyjGXNsI

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life Part 3

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 79:37


By popular demand, Stephen Wolfram explores anecdotes and stories from his life.Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a8Xp4WCgIA4

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life Part 4

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 138:53


By popular demand, Stephen Wolfram explores anecdotes and stories from his life.Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pG8BgTy0130

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life Part 5

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 98:57


By popular demand, Stephen Wolfram explores anecdotes and stories from his life.Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gqFtsDnuLP0

Into the Impossible
Are We Wrong About the Big Bang? Niayesh Afshordi

Into the Impossible

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 79:35


Get Dr. Brian Keating's NEW Book for Only 0.99! This week only: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8DH6SX?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100 For over a century, cosmologists have believed that the universe began a single fiery moment. The Big Bang. But what if that story is incomplete? Or what if it's even wrong? My guest today, Professor Niayesh Afshordi, is a professor of astrophysics at the Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo. He and his colleague Bill Halpern argue that the real battle in science is over the mysteries of singularities, those points where our equations collapse and space, time and physics itself seem to break down. In a new book, Battle of the Big Bang, they take us inside the fight to understand whether the Big Bang was truly the beginning of it all, or whether it was just one chapter in a far stranger cosmic saga. KEY TAKEAWAYS 00:00:00 – Cosmologists no longer see the Big Bang as the beginning of time 00:11:01 – Singularity vs the later hot Big Bang phases like nucleosynthesis 00:12:13 – Survey of physicists shows “Big Bang” is understood differently 00:15:37 – Hawking and singularities 00:23:12 – Black hole information paradox remains unresolved after 50 years 00:30:26 – Religion remains a social tool 00:35:56 – The Simons Observatory was created to probe primordial gravitational waves in the CMB 00:39:50 – Scientific careers are constrained by funding and “hot topics” in research 00:41:17 – Science advances by tying ideas to observation, not just social structures 00:42:07 – Disagreement with Carlo Rovelli 00:44:54 – Competing quantum gravity models are ideas, not fully testable theories yet 00:46:14 – String theory, loop quantum gravity, and holography lack experimental evidence 00:47:55 – Cancellation of CMB Stage-4 highlights limits of experimental cosmology 00:49:14 – Afshordi views himself closer to an observer than a pure theorist 00:54:51 – Scientific progress benefits from bridging between communities 00:57:47 – Repulsive gravity in inflation avoids singularities but leaves open loopholes 01:01:00 – Singularity theorems can break down with quantum gravity or altered dimensions 01:03:05 – Our universe was born inside a black hole 01:06:16 – Future probes might let us see further back than the CMB 01:10:56 – Einstein unknowingly started the quest for quantum gravity - Additional resources: Get Niayesh Afshordi's book: https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Big-Bang-Cosmic-Origins/dp/0226830470 Get Dr. Brian Keating's NEW Book for Only 0.99! This week only: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8DH6SX?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100 Please join my mailing list here

Into the Impossible
David Deutsch Round 2: We Will Build Humans Before AGI

Into the Impossible

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2025 32:54


Get My New Book, Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, for Only $ 0.99! This week only: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U David Deutsch offers his insights into the physics that will impact our future, challenging our new technologies, such as AGI and the development of synthetic humans, as depicted in movies. Join us for this fascinating discussion as we go INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE. KEY TAKEAWAYS 00:00:00 – 00:00:39 Could machines experience thoughts and sensations like humans? 00:00:45 – 00:01:46 Deutsch argues subjective experiences can arise from any system replicating brain-like processing. 00:01:47 – 00:02:25 We never experience the present moment directly but recall slightly delayed interpretations. 00:02:25 – 00:03:30 Deutsch views himself as software running on brain hardware, embodiment is mainly computational. 00:03:30 – 00:04:37 Loss of physical body parts doesn't reduce personhood 00:04:43 – 00:07:13 Story of “lock-in” from horse's width shaping space tech leads to analogy about AI hardware lock-in. 00:08:10 – 00:09:20 Lock-in may slow progress but creativity ensures no permanent limits. 00:09:20 – 00:12:15 Square roots and complex numbers naturally emerge in physics due to algebraic structures of reality. 00:12:15 – 00:13:31 Not all mathematical structures are worth exploring—only those relevant to solving physics problems. 00:13:31 – 00:17:00 Shift to memetics: persistence of anti-Jewish patterns is deeper than typical memes. 00:17:00 – 00:19:26 Pattern predates Christianity; it persists through cultural rationalizations, not simple hatred. 00:19:50 – 00:21:23 Discussion of life vs. death choices from Torah portion ties to Deutsch's book on infinity 00:21:44 – 00:22:32 Humanity faces no upper or lower bounds—capable of infinite progress or catastrophic mistakes 00:23:36 – 00:24:21 Advice to young self-consider interference processes as a door to quantum computation 00:25:16 – 00:26:13 Deutsch admits past mistakes—initially misjudged multiverse explanations and free will 00:27:08 – 00:28:08 David redefines free will as the ability to create objectively new knowledge. 00:28:14 – 00:28:41 AGI programs will have free will once true AI is achieved. 00:29:02 – 00:29:18 Conclusion -------------------------- Additional resources: Get Dr. Brian Keating's NEW Book for Only 0.99! This week only: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8DH6SX?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100 Get David Deutsch's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359 Please join my mailing list here

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Founder of Cellular Automata Unifies Biology, Computation, & Physics

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2025 127:35


Get 50% off Claude Pro, including access to Claude Code, at http://claude.ai/theoriesofeverything As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe In this episode, I speak with Stephen Wolfram—creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Language—about a “new kind of science” that treats the universe as computation. We explore computational irreducibility, discrete space, multi-way systems, and how the observer shapes the laws we perceive—from the second law of thermodynamics to quantum mechanics. Wolfram reframes Feynman diagrams as causal structures, connects evolution and modern AI through coarse fitness and assembled “lumps” of computation, and sketches a nascent theory of biology as bulk orchestration. We also discuss what makes science good: new tools, ruthless visualization, respect for history, and a field he calls “ruliology”—the study of simple rules, where anyone can still make real contributions. This is basically a documentary akin to The Life and Times of Stephen Wolfram. I hope you enjoy it. Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e SUPPORT: - Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 SOCIALS: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Guests do not pay to appear. Theories of Everything receives revenue solely from viewer donations, platform ads, and clearly labelled sponsors; no guest or associated entity has ever given compensation, directly or through intermediaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (August 22, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2025 78:25


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics discussed: Breakthroughs in mathematics and new foundations - Paths for learning and practicing mathematics - Complexity and the limits of computation - The evolving nature of science

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 20, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2025 76:17


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Shifts in scientific roles and fields - Personal journey into computation and research - Challenges in publishing and tracing physics work - Feynman and string theory

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (August 27, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2025 70:35


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qaTopics discussed: Education and self-learning - Patents and the innovation process - Computational thinking - Philosophy and ethics of AI - Decision-making and collaboration

Into the Impossible
Ben Shapiro: Free Will, AGI, and the Scavengers Ruining America's Future

Into the Impossible

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2025 63:33


The Last Theory
Black holes in the hypergraph with Stephen Wolfram

The Last Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2025 21:54


Electrons may be tiny black holes propagating through the hypergraph.After all, electrons and black holes have much in common: they're carriers of pure motion, they're all the same – from the outside, at least – and we don't know what's going on inside them.Just as black holes may cloak the remants of collapsed civilizations, so electrons may hold secret histories of their paths through the universe.Stephen Wolfram takes this idea further. If particles, such as electrons, are the carriers of pure motion in physical space, what are the carriers of pure motion in branchial space and rulial space? Maybe, in rulial space, it's the discrete concepts we use to communicate ideas from one mind to another.These are fascinating speculations, but Stephen insists that we need not know what a particle is to make progress with his framework. We can understand energy without knowing what a particle is; we can understand momentum without knowing what a particle is; maybe we can even derive Quantum Field Theory from the Wolfram model without ever knowing what a particle is.—Stephen WolframStephen WolframThe Wolfram Physics ProjectWolfram InstituteWolfram Institute Community DiscordReferencesBlack holesBlack hole mergersKuratowski's theoremWagner's theoremConway's Game of Life resources include Alan Dewar's implementation, Chris Rowett's Life Viewer, playgameoflife.com and ConwayLife.comEnergy is the flux of causal edges through spacelike hypersurfacesCausal graphQuantum electrodynamicsQuantum chromodynamicsThe Standard ModelRichard FeynmanFeynman diagramQuantum Field TheoryS-matrix or scattering matrixVirtual particlesBrancial spaceRulial spaceComputational irreducibilityVideos and imagesEddy line over the Eastern Pacific video by GOES imagery: CSU/CIRA & NOAA public domainPerpetual Ocean 2: Western Boundary Currents video and image by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio / Greg Shirah reproduced under NASA Images and Media Usage GuidelinesFlight around a black hole video and image by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center / J. Schnittman and B. Powell via NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio reproduced under NASA Images and Media Usage GuidelinesMerging Black Holes video by NASA / Dana Berry via NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio reproduced under NASA Images and Media Usage GuidelinesBlack Holes: Monsters in Space (Artist's Concept) image by NASA / JPL-Caltech reproduced under NASA Images and Media Usage Guidelines—The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web MindI release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (August 13, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2025 48:50


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qaTopics discussed: Early academic experiences - Innovation and business dynamics - Evaluating AI companies and tools - AI Regulation - Career advice in a changing tech job market

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (August 8, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 86:12


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics discussed: Topics discussed: Optics and quantum computing - AI architectures and reasoning - Bioengineering and emerging tech - Automation and algorithm design - Technology path dependence

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (July 30, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 49:08


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qaTopics discussed: Choosing the right college - Early business lessons & company mission - Balancing leadership with personal projects - Software risks & bug management - The role of AI in business.

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 6, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 81:06


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Historical perspectives on knowledge sharing, collaboration and AI - Scientific creativity across time - Art, science and the evolution of modern expression.

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [July 25, 2025]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2025 70:33


Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: The Big Bang and expansion of space - Mathematics and physical reality - Computational foundations of biology - The role of kids in science and technology

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
History of Science & Technology Q&A (July 23, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 82:37


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Historical scientific problems and modern computation - Historical contingency in technology - Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) - Visits to scientific historical sites - History of museums and ancient artifacts - Virtual particles in physics - Einstein's Unified Field Theory - Scientists as movie subjects

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (July 18, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2025 76:43


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics discussed: Personalized pedagogy and AI in education - Computer simulations vs. physical experimentation - Aging and longevity science AI, consciousness and human-machine interaction - Medical breakthroughs and disease eradication - Future of communication - Gene editing and CRISPR - Algorithmic decision-making

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (July 16, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 64:52


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qaTopics discussed: Using AI in daily work and research - Interfaces and the adoption of AI technology - Computation and the future of algorithms - Modern day skills and computational thinking - Productivity and procrastination - Innovation, markets, and globalization

Into the Impossible
Another Alien Asteroid | Avi Loeb

Into the Impossible

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 90:13


In this episode, I sit down with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb to explore his provocative new article analyzing the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — a visitor from beyond our solar system that might not be natural.

Chasing Consciousness
AI SAFETY - A SCEPTICAL VIEW - Stephen Wolfram PhD #76

Chasing Consciousness

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 100:42


What are the benefits and risks of developing advanced AI? What kind of safety precautions could we take? Could we risk never making future discoveries, by over-limiting today's AI in pre-emptive safety regulations?In this episode we get a sceptical evaluation of the complex debate that's currently raging on artificial Intelligence safety, aiming to get a balanced view of the extremely useful applications versus the currently hugely publicised existential risks, and evaluate the safety measures and legislative frameworks that are being considered to help avoid risk to humans. To do this we trace the path from today's artificial intelligence right up the ever steeper curve towards artificial super intelligence; we risk risk assess the unpredictability of emergent properties of such systems; we assess the future of work, and the potential loss of control of our culture as AI starts to outnumber us and generate more and more of the media we consume.My guest today has a unique take on these issues which took me by surprise, as he disagrees with the alarmism and call for harsh regulation, whilst openly predicting that emergent properties will more or less guarantee safety hazards. The fact that he has been at the cutting edge of computer science for over 40 years, creating computer language and Ai solutions, makes him well placed to provide a counterpoint to the AI safety campaigners calling for collective action. He is of course physicist, computer scientist and tech entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram. In 1987 he left academia at Caltech and Princeton behind and devoted himself to his own computer systems at his company Wolfram Research. He's published many blog articles about his ideas, and written many influential books including “A new kind of science”, “A project to find the fundamental theory of physics”, and “Computer modelling and simulation of dynamic systems”, and most recently “The Second law” about the mystery of Entropy. What we discussed:00:00 Intro. 06:30 Stephen's first forays into neural nets in the early 80s.09:30 Cellular Automata.11:00 Can you make the knowledge of the world available via computers?13:00 Wolfram Alpha: A non-AI AI. 17:45 Can AI solve science?22:00 AI is great at rough answers, worse at the detail.33:00 Artificial General intelligence, A.G.I.42:00 The pros & cons of super intelligence.47:40 Chat GBT's unpredicted peculiarities.54:00 The spread of mistruth. 58:00 AI and the future of work.01:05:20 Businesses leading automation push.01:09:00 AI will outnumber us and network, changing our culture.01:11:00 AI will follow a banal ‘mean'.01:16:30 The AI Safety debate.01:21:00 We have no choice, it will be developed anyway.01:22:00 Ai systems may have feelings, we don't know.01:25:00 Stephen's non-interventionist safety approach.References: Stepehn Wolfram, “A project to find the fundamental theory of physics”,Stephen Wolfram, “The Second Law” The History of “Neural Nets” since 1943, (Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts paper)Stephen Wolfram, “Can AI solve science?” article

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
History of Science & Technology Q&A (July 2, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 98:09


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Alternate histories and missed scientific paths - How science is remembered and talked about - Scientific breakthroughs - How science gets done and who gets involved

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [June 20, 2025]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 80:27


Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Black hole mergers, event horizons and why nothing gets out - Time dilation and computing near black holes - Ions

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (June 13, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 86:18


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics discussed: The limits and future of software defined everything - Molecular design and biological engineering - Human enhancement and genome level modification

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (June 11, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 86:35


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qaTopics discussed: Wolfram Summer School - Computational thinking and education - Parenting and learning from family - Project habits, curiosity and life decisions

New Dimensions
Are We Living in a Video Game? - Rizwan Virk - ND3793P

New Dimensions

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 53:48


Are we living in a material universe or a simulated one? Are we living in a massive, multiplayer, online, role-playing game where our deeds and quests are being kept track of in the “cloud” like an angel recording our lives? If so, who is running the game? And what is the connection between computer science, video game physics, and the great spiritual traditions? Rizwan Virk (known as Riz) is a successful entrepreneur, a video game pioneer, a venture capitalist, and founder of the start-up accelerator Play Labs @ MIT. His interest and expertise ranges from video games, the metaverse, simulation theory, meditation, consciousness, and the intersection of science, science fiction, religion, and philosophy. He's a graduate of MIT and Stanford and is currently a faculty associate at Arizona State University. He is the author of Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior (BayView Labs 2013), Startup Myths and Models: What You Won't Learn in Business School (Columbia Business School Publishing 2020), Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success (Watkins Publishing 2017), The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics Agree We Are in a Video Game. (Bayview books 2019), Wisdom of a Yogi: Lessons for Modern Seekers from Autobiography of a Yogi (Bayview Books 2023), The Zen Entrepreneur & the Dream: An MIT Grad's Quest for Success & Enlightenment in Silicon Valley (2023)Interview Date: 7/14/2023 Tags: Rizwan Virk, Riz Virk, video games, Hindu Vedas, Atari, ChatGPT, reincarnation, dialup computer modems, augmented reality, Nick Bostrom, The Matrix film, Elon Musk, multiple universes, parallel universes, John Wheeler, 20th century physics, consciousness, entanglement, nonlocality, Star Trek Holodecks and replicas, Claude Shannon, Galileo, Schrödinger's cat, quantum physics, probability wave, optimization, conditional rendering, chaos theory, complexity theory, Stephen Wolfram, quenched disorder, Paramahansa Yogananda, Science, Philosophy, Technology, Spirituality

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
History of Science & Technology Q&A (June 4, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 82:42


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: AI milestones and conceptual shifts - Encounters with physicists - Attributes and personalities of influential thinkers - Naming conventions in science and technology

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Stephen Wolfram on Observer Theory

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 108:38


Stephen reads a blog from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com and then answers questions live from his viewers.Read the blog along with Stephen: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/12/observer-theory/Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qm3Y6qxdOwM

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (May 16, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 71:48


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics discussed: Copyright and creative ownership in an AI world - AI built into personal systems - Data scraping, consent and privacy tradeoffs - AI roles in the real world - AI and the future of teaching and learning - First encounters with computers

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 9, 2025]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 69:05


Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Conscious experience and perception - Brain structure and sensory extension - Brain manipulation and individuality - Consciousness and artificial systems - Computational theory and the brain

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (May 14, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 88:44


Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qaTopics discussed: Building companies that do real science - New frontiers in science, complex systems and generative art - Risks of algorithmic trading and LLMs in finance - Balancing science and profits - Blockchain ideas that aren't just buzzwords

Growth Minds
The AI Expert: "Super AI Will Be Unstoppable!"– What's Coming NEXT _ Stephen Wolfram

Growth Minds

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 157:29


Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and entrepreneur best known for founding Wolfram Research and creating Mathematica and the computational knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. A child prodigy, he published scientific papers in physics by the age of 15 and earned his Ph.D. from Caltech at 20. He later developed A New Kind of Science, proposing that simple computational rules can explain complex phenomena in nature. Wolfram has been a pioneer in symbolic computation, computational thinking, and AI. His work continues to influence science, education, and technology.In our conversation we discuss:(00:00) What was the first version of AI?(23:38) What triggered the current AI revolution?(34:19) Did OpenAI base its initial algorithm on Google's work?(46:47) What is the technological gap between now and achieving AGI?(1:15:59) Do you fear an AI-driven world you can't fully understand?(1:35:15) What do we need to unlearn if AI can replicate human abilities?(1:47:39) What happens when there aren't enough jobs due to automation?(1:54:01) How is AI reshaping people's views on wealth?(2:25:48) The future of automating software developmentLearn more about Stephen WolframWebsite: https://www.stephenwolfram.com/index.php.enWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_WolframWatch full episodes on: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@seankim⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Connect on IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://instagram.com/heyseankim⁠

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Physicist Who Proved Entropy = Gravity

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 112:46


What if gravity is not fundamental but emerges from quantum entanglement? In this episode, physicist Ted Jacobson reveals how Einstein's equations can be derived from thermodynamic principles of the quantum vacuum, reshaping our understanding of space, time, and gravity itself. As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:11 The Journey into Physics 04:26 Spirituality and Physics 06:29 Connecting Gravity and Thermodynamics 09:22 The Concept of Rindler Horizons 13:12 The Nature of Quantum Vacuum 20:53 The Duality of Quantum Fields 32:59 Understanding the Equation of State 35:05 Exploring Local Rindler Horizons 47:15 Holographic Duality and Space-Time Emergence 58:19 The Metric and Quantum Fields 59:58 Extensions and Comparisons in Gravity 1:26:26 The Nature of Black Hole Physics 1:31:04 Comparing Theories Links Mentioned:: •⁠ ⁠Ted's published papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QyHAXo8AAAAJ&hl=en •⁠ ⁠Claudia de Rham on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve_Mpd6dGv8 •⁠ ⁠Neil Turok on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZCa1pVE20 •⁠ ⁠Bisognano–Wichmann theorem: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Bisognano-Wichmann+theorem •⁠ ⁠Scott Aaronson and Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbC3XZr9-c •⁠ ⁠Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4 •⁠ ⁠Ruth Kastner on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BsHh3_vCMQ •⁠ ⁠Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaS1usLeXQM •⁠ ⁠Leonard Susskind on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_Hlm6aCok •⁠ ⁠Ted's talk on black holes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYt2Rm_dXf4 •⁠ ⁠Ted Jacobson: Diffeomorphism invariance and the black hole information paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6kdHge-NNY •⁠ ⁠Bose–Einstein condensate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose–Einstein_condensate •⁠ ⁠Holographic Thought Experiments (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2845 •⁠ ⁠Peter Woit and Joseph Conlon on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAaXk_WoQqQ •⁠ ⁠Chiara Marletto on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uey_mUy1vN0 •⁠ ⁠Entanglement Equilibrium and the Einstein Equation (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.04753 •⁠ ⁠Ivette Fuentes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUj2TcZSlZc •⁠ ⁠Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2842 •⁠ ⁠The dominant model of the universe is cracking (Economist article): https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/19/the-dominant-model-of-the-universe-is-creaking •⁠ ⁠Suvrat Raju's published papers: https://www.suvratraju.net/publications •⁠ ⁠Mark Van Raamsdonk's published papers: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=k8LsA4YAAAAJ&hl=en •⁠ ⁠Ryu–Takayanagi conjecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu–Takayanagi_conjecture Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
How AI Healthcare Will Change the World

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 88:53


As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe What if you had a thousand doctors working for you 24/7, at virtually no cost? In this episode of Theories of Everything, a panel of leading AI and medical experts explores how “medical swarms” of intelligent agents could revolutionize healthcare, making personalized, concierge-level treatment accessible to all. This isn't science fiction, it's the near future and it will change everyone's life. Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Links Mentioned: •⁠ ⁠Ekkolapto: https://www.ekkolapto.org/polymath •⁠ ⁠Ekkolapto's Longevity Hackathon: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy5dPSW_KkniuHpoLwlzkYcxhxn50Mn0T •⁠ ⁠William Hahn's lab: https://mpcrlab.com/ •⁠ ⁠Michael Levin's presentation at ekkolapto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exdz2HKP7u0 •⁠ ⁠Gil Blander's InsideTracker (website): https://blog.insidetracker.com/ •⁠ ⁠Dan Elton's website: https://www.moreisdifferent.com/ •⁠ ⁠FAU's Sandbox: https://www.fau.edu/sandbox/ •⁠ ⁠Will Hahn on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr4R7eh5f_M&t=1s •⁠ ⁠Will Hahn's in-person interview on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fkg0uTA3qU •⁠ ⁠Michael Levin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8iFtaltX-s •⁠ ⁠Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4 •⁠ ⁠Neil Turok's lecture on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwhqmPqRl4&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlOYgTu7P4nfjYkv3mkikyBa&index=13 •⁠ ⁠Robin Hanson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEomfUU4PDs •⁠ Tyler Goldstein (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/@theoryofeveryone GO TO THIS MAN'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL. HE HELPED WITH THE CAMERA WORK IMPROMPTU AND ALSO HAS A FANTASTIC CHANNEL ANALYZING THEORIES. THANK YOU, TYLER! •⁠ ⁠Joscha Bach on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MNBxfrmfmI •⁠ ⁠Manolis Kellis on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g56lxZwnaqg •⁠ ⁠Geoffrey Hinton on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DUft-BdIE Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 4:43 A New Approach to Healthcare 5:33 AI in Medical Imaging 7:40 Cognitive Models 11:09 Education in Medicine 23:02 Exploring the Boundaries of AI 32:04 The Future of AI in Medicine 37:20 Swarming Agents 41:49 The Ethics of AI in Healthcare 45:17 AI into Clinical Practice 55:58 Preparing for an AI-Driven Future 1:15:03 The Human Element in Medicine 1:17:19 Emotional Intelligence in AI 1:20:11 Unified Theory in Medicine 1:21:31 Conclusion Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices