Interview with Stephen Wolfram on AI and Machine Learning
Friday, February 28, 2025
I don’t normally share clips from podcasts I listen to, but in this case, it’s well worth it. On Intelligent Machines, Episode 808, the creator of Mathematica and founder of Wolfram Alpha, Stephen Wolfram, shares his views on how he sees AI progressing from here.
He brilliantly discusses how AI will augment humans, not completely replace them in the workforce (something I’ve been advocating for a while); including why AGI is not what we think of it today. Wolfram Alpha is approaching machine learning differently than most LLMs do at this point in time, and the emergence of an “AI Civilization” where it will operate indecently of human authority.
The interview is around 40-minutes, but is well worth your attention.