Future of Science and Technology Q&A (September 13, 2024)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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-qa

Questions include: ​​What research is essential for putting people on Mars? - Any comments on the future of arts and literature in the face of AI-related challenges? Will individual creative impulses forever be subjugated to AI? - How often do you find yourself thinking about the future of science and technology? Does this affect how you prioritize certain projects (say, wait five years because the tech will be better to handle it)? - Is there a chance we will ever have giant insects or animals akin to those that lived during the age of dinosaurs reappear? - How can we combine LLMs with first-generation AI algorithms like "MiniMax" and tree search? At the moment, LLMs can't even play tic-tac -toe. - ​​Have you heard about AI reading minds through brain waves and fMRI, researched by Michael Blumenstein and Jerry Tang? - Have your thoughts on the future of education changed at all recently? - Would you ever go to Mars? - Are the challenges different from colonizing the bottom of the ocean, other than obvious logistics? - ​​Given the uptick in robotics advances, including humanoid, I wonder if there will even be a point to sending humans to Mars anymore, beyond tourism. - ​​Wasn't there a significantly higher percentage of O2 back then? - A pygmy Stegosaurus would be adorable! - ​​I would not like to go to Mars. It seems boring. They don't even have a Starbucks. - How might the Physics Project help advance technologies like fusion power?