What is Wolfram Language? (Stephen Wolfram)

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Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the new Wolfram Physics project. He is the author of several books including A New Kind of Science, which on a personal note was one of the most influential books in my journey in computer science and artificial intelligence.
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@rajathshetty325 4 жыл бұрын

From wikipedia: "..As a young child, Wolfram had difficulties learning arithmetic. At the age of 12, he wrote a directory of physics. By age 14, he had written three books on particle physics." Wolfram, at the age of 15, began research in applied quantum field theory and particle physics and published scientific papers. Topics included matter creation and annihilation, the fundamental interactions, elementary particles and their currents, hadronic and leptonic physics, and the parton model, published in professional peer-reviewed scientific journals including Nuclear Physics B, Australian Journal of Physics, Nuovo Cimento, and Physical Review D.[42] Working independently, Wolfram published a widely cited paper on heavy quark production at age 18[2] and nine other papers,[18] and continued research and to publish on particle physics into his early twenties. Wolfram's work with Geoffrey C. Fox on the theory of the strong interaction is still used in experimental particle physics. This guy is a genius.

@MrValkyr1e 4 жыл бұрын

Don't believe everything you read

@williamseipp9691 4 жыл бұрын

man... to dive THAT deep into particle physics and stay there, I wonder where that curiosity comes from. I mean I understand some basics of physics and the size of quarks and neutrinos but it's frankly boring for me. I wonder why he found it so interesting at so young an age?

@Intaqa 4 жыл бұрын

Its all about preferences man. This stuff fascinate the hell out of me and I love it. There just isn't any money in it unless you are stupid smart (which I am not) or super connected (which I am also not).

@GenkiDamaSSJ 4 жыл бұрын

Now I want to see him talk to Eric Weinstein.

@SamirPatnaik 3 жыл бұрын

Prodigy is the word

@TheInroad 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine creating a robot and then that robot flexes on you by calling you a toilet plunger on a podcast.

@3_up_moon 3 жыл бұрын

Is it not a collection of what his critics have said about him? Isnt that how the thing works?

@kalervomaatta5088 9 ай бұрын

@@3_up_moon4:29

@randalltaves6033 4 жыл бұрын

Wolfram Alpha is the closest anyone has come to date to creating the Computer on the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek. Amazing effort!

@TheAnbyrley 4 жыл бұрын

Wolfram is great for checking your derivations. It has often taught me interesting identities, special functions, and simplifications that I didn't know before.

@ChuckN914 4 жыл бұрын

WolframAlpha and Wolfram language are two separate things entierly

@TheAnbyrley 4 жыл бұрын

@@ChuckN914 Yes obviously. I mean the software package he is using in the video. For instance, it turned out one expression I derived was an identity for 1/2. That revelation led me to another idea, and another proof and so on. It put some more meat on my Ph.D haha

@aaaarrrg3773 4 жыл бұрын

It's a trip how much he's influenced our world and I had no idea who he was till I watched this interview. It's inspired me to relearn math so I can follow this cat's research. I can't thank you enough for this Lex. Keep doing those interviews on Rogan's show, there are a lot of people out there like me who need to be woken up. My brain has gotten lazy over the last few decades and you've helped to rekindle that fire. Watched Wolfram's live Q&A today and the dude is super interesting. He likes to talk, but that's cool, what he has to say is worth hearing. He's good at breaking down information in a way that's palatable to the layman.

@MisterDoctorBaconman 3 жыл бұрын

I've been following the streams too, he gets so many questions and all of them require such in depth answers but he also tries his hardest to answer good ones satisfactorily. For me it's great as a source of random new ideas, because he touches on so many different things that it's perfect for when you need to think creatively.

@multiversityx 4 жыл бұрын

5:44 a plunger 😂

@garycollins4399 4 жыл бұрын

57% a plunger 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TheInroad 4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention it was like “and if you’re not a toilet plunger there’s a good chance you’re an ape”

@bullishtingles1384 4 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating. Keep up the great work, Lex.

@buddyguy7175 3 жыл бұрын

I used Mathematica at Ohio State in the Physics department for a whole year in Prof. Greg Kupps physics 260 series. It was quite amazing. It could break down very complex factorization of equations, integrals and even provide a step by step on how it arrived at its solution. It was amazing. One of a kind software.

@makssharma1688 4 жыл бұрын

Just amazing how different it is compared to conventional languages, dont understand why this is not as popular as Python or MATLAB when it existed for 33 years! Thank you, Lex, for the enlightening and keep em comin'!!!

@sortof3337 4 жыл бұрын

its cause its paid. my scool only has two licenses for 100+ students.

@theadamabrams 4 жыл бұрын

Python is free. While MATLAB isn't free, Octave is free and it's very similar. Mathematica is amazing but it's expensive.

@omerresnikoff3565 4 жыл бұрын

Also it is a tool whose uses are very limited. You can at least make desktop and CLI tools in Python, Wolfram doesn't have that

@MansoorAman 4 жыл бұрын

Expensive and slow would be he main points. Although it is highly expressive, it is very limited in it's scope. In Matlab and Python, you can write your engineering code, and also do the rest of the developer stuff you need (interact with fs, sockets, other device), deploy to hardware, generate code for other platforms, ...

@lawrencejwinkler 2 жыл бұрын

@@omerresnikoff3565 Yes you can. The user interface is just another WL (Wolfram Language) sublanguage.

@TurboJon Жыл бұрын

Stephen Wolfram is a once in a hundred years genius and visionary who actually takes on and executes big problems. I worry about Wolfram the company and concept when he is no longer with us to provide the thought leadership and vision, maintain the discipline and integrity, and drive its implementation.

@rajathshetty325 4 жыл бұрын

From Wikipedia: Both Stephen Wolfram and Christopher Wolfram were involved in helping create the alien language for the film Arrival, for which they used the Wolfram Language

@nullf6950 4 жыл бұрын

Wolfram takes many forms including a plunger lol

@judo-rob5197 4 жыл бұрын

When I was in university I used it. It is too expensive for the average person. That in effect limits it's adaption.

@sortof3337 4 жыл бұрын

yup.

@HHY623 4 жыл бұрын

with wolfram engine + jupyter， you can use WL for free.

@Nick_Tag 4 жыл бұрын

It's £20 per month -- I've spent that on Typeform in the past. Might try the engine + jupyter suggestion. In the past I used it to calculate the Shockley-Queisser limit on dye sensitized solar cells and help secure my organisation £50M investment

@sortof3337 4 жыл бұрын

@@HHY623 It has the same features as mathmatica and alpha?

@gamesthatmatter9374 4 жыл бұрын

its 150 euro for home edition ! And it has ALL features of full edition except cannot be used commercially . Much better than Matlab home edition who sells a gimped version (no code generation , limited numbers of simulink blocks)

@pariscatblue 4 жыл бұрын

Lex it was great!, thank you :-)

@sherrivonch6231 4 жыл бұрын

Goodnight. And I love your podcasts.

@ColorsCult 4 жыл бұрын

AMAZING! I feel a little guilty for using it as a calculator until now.

@foreverseethe 2 жыл бұрын

By my account that is what it is. What did you discover about it from this interview? Can you give another analogy to help others who are genuinely interested in getting their heads around the conceptual idea behind it, without having ever used it?

@jacksonmeeks9313 Жыл бұрын

Really late response, but for others who read this - it is a very good language for quickly hashing out ideas. However, I would strongly advise against using it for anything deployment related, or for large programs. It’s a nightmare to debug, once you start getting into larger programs. That’s just my experience, however - so I could be missing something. I think it is, however, a phenomenal tool - just don’t fall into the trap of wanting to create massive systems with it.

@madmonk4214 4 жыл бұрын

when the computer thinks u a plunger LMFAO

@SmartK8 4 жыл бұрын

Your own program!

@bullishtingles1384 4 жыл бұрын

Can you theoretically encode every bit a data you can get about your own biology into this language then use it to test what effects nutrition or other substances may or may not have on your body?

@TheInroad 4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention it was like “and if you’re not a toilet plunger, there’s a good chance you’re an ape”

@tdmisawesome Жыл бұрын

thanks. i listen to your podcast sometimes i like it.

@glenneric1 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome content.

@theonetruemorty4078 3 жыл бұрын

I asked Wolfram Alpha "Who's your daddy? and it responded that Stephen and team were, in fact, it's daddy. This was followed by "Show me a plunger," which it did, accompanied by definitions, the first being "someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains." So, I guess that Stephen is a plunger after all. Well played, Alpha. Well played.

@KalebPeters99 2 жыл бұрын

Hahah brilliant 😆

@snehachakraborty7066 4 жыл бұрын

I Love Wolfram Language! What a video to make! You took my heart today!

@richyrich8939 4 жыл бұрын

🥰

@snehachakraborty7066 4 жыл бұрын

@@bhuvaneshs.k638 Even I learnt it a bit and found interesting. I don't use it much though.

@lolgamez9171 4 жыл бұрын

@@bhuvaneshs.k638 18:36 as an example

@aaronsmith6632 3 жыл бұрын

Great interview!!! Lex, your show has taken the baton (from Joe Rogan) of the greatest mind-blowing podcast on KZfaq!

@henrikf8777 3 жыл бұрын

WolframAlpha is awesome, I don't know how to use the wolfram language, yet, but I really like the underlying broader concept of it.

@swamihuman9395 4 жыл бұрын

QUESTION: Any issues w/ SD card reader? Mine is often not read when inserted. Takes multiple tries/fiddling to work. Plus, had print stop, which I think was possibly due to SD card wiggling loose. Hm? TIA.

@swamihuman9395 4 жыл бұрын

@jay HAHA! Misplaced comment. Have been using the KZfaq quick playlist feature. Sometimes it goes to the next video, but the comments section doesn't! Thx for alerting me. Off to post to the intended video...

@solidmood2855 4 жыл бұрын

someone needs to make a compilation of everytime lex says "well, im russian"

@dickdickson3608 4 жыл бұрын

....we like to romanticize things LOL

@bobdavis7192 4 жыл бұрын

Great Stuff Lex!!! I taught myself basic and wrote a lot of programs for work. I have dabbled in, Java, C, Python and now I guess I need to get a peek at Wolfram. I'll need another pandemic to help me devote the time to it. :oD

@lubomirdinchev334 4 жыл бұрын

"Most of the brilliant dreamers give up such a difficult engineering notion at some point." It's death by chasing impossible dreams or death by mediocrity, how could anyone quit....

@damionm121 4 жыл бұрын

lubomir dinchev this needs to be on billboards

@thesystemera 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this.. Its like Cando Amigy styles of ideas!

@thesystemera 4 жыл бұрын

Amiga

@almor2445 Жыл бұрын

Lex, it's time to get him back. Now GPT-4 API has access to Wolfram Alpha, we need to explore what capabilities Machine Learning, LLMs and Wolfram Language/Data can do together. Add a way to increase the character length of replies and a way to store new data as memory and you've got the bulk of AI right there.

@almor2445 Жыл бұрын

Get Boston Dynamics involved and get real-world robotic feedback too. :)

@hadee.guitarist 3 жыл бұрын

I'm having trouble understanding what he means by a computational contract. Are other smart contracts not computational?

@travisfitzwater8093 2 жыл бұрын

Dr Wolfram could you please comment on the extent to which the current average daily utilization of Wolfram alfrem represents the totality of the capacity of the servers that you have that you have running from alpha to accommodate traffic meaning if 10 server is a 10 people a day would be the Maxima out of that 10 how many a day would you say utilize the system therefore how much unused capacity is it necessary or would it be necessary to acquire additional users to fill sorry that didn't make sense

@x0rn312 3 жыл бұрын

The thing Wolfram said about needing multiple different competing AI ethics modules is very prescient

@OptimusVlad 3 жыл бұрын

And that's how Steven Wolfram become known as the 'Plunger'.

@evamaclennan8467 4 жыл бұрын

Wolfram is so likeable. What a great clip.

@AGI_108 10 ай бұрын

Plunger had me rolling🤣

@whosthatguy1 4 жыл бұрын

Genuine question: isn’t he just taking datasets aka apis from other languages and including the information in a language that is more command line?

@SocialHigh 4 жыл бұрын

"A plunger" LMAO sorry

@BraianDeLeon 4 жыл бұрын

Where can I get his Laptop Sticker?

@sequeld 4 жыл бұрын

This guy is really onto something.

@bilalmathematician3083 3 жыл бұрын

amazing talking

@ulfschack 3 жыл бұрын

A plunger! Love it XD

@aucontraire593 4 жыл бұрын

WolframAlpha: Look sir, your a plunger! The numbers don't lie! *Existential crises maximizes*

@ChuckN914 4 жыл бұрын

I get the joke, just some clarification WolframAlpha and the Wolfram language are 2 different things. WolframAlpha is built from the Wolfram language. His demonstration was in the Wolfram language

@alertbri Жыл бұрын

Wolfram language looks initially like a swiss army knife of random computation.

@Wlodzislaw Жыл бұрын

Adding computations to language is a great step forward. Where will it lead us? Exiting times. But it is not quite true that we do not have theory in machine learning, or we do not have anything between neurons and behavior.

@just_A_doctor Жыл бұрын

U r wrong we are just using data with human though

@livefree1030 4 жыл бұрын

Rob Schneider is a....Carrot!!

@MacarthurLouissaint-rz7tl 4 жыл бұрын

I would like to see talk about warp drive technology anti gravity

@de5936 Жыл бұрын

Wolfram should mention that Ed Fredkin was ahead of him in this line of thinking!! Give credit, where credit is due.

@shreeyatyagi 4 жыл бұрын

Computational contracts!

@michaelgrayrn4579 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@henrikf8777 3 жыл бұрын

Terry Davis was right! Graphics in source code is the way of the future... Sad he won't get to see it. RIP.

@uzairakbar6769 4 жыл бұрын

Would love to see Bernhard Schölkopf on here one day.

@HeliumXenonKrypton 4 жыл бұрын

I went to WolframAlpha and asked the following question: "Are probabilistic potentials tangibly real ?" It did not give me an answer. But that's OK because I already have a satisfactory answer, to that question.

@madmonk4214 4 жыл бұрын

thanks wolfram (college student)

@laughingvampire7555 Жыл бұрын

people don't use Wolfram more because the same reason why Smalltalk banished 1. too Expensive for most people to justify it for their job. 2. *not open source* if you are going to advertise yourself as a programming language today, and you are not open source most developers are going to ignore you regardless of how awesome your programming language is. I'm a fanatic of lisp languages and I like Mathematica but is just too expensive for me & I want an open source version of it

@---uw4hs 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder what type of watch Lex wears.

@BrianWilcox1976 2 жыл бұрын

A roLEX

@Show_Cast 10 ай бұрын

Wolfram alpha blew me off. It's a masterpiece

@connorfinnerty1366 4 жыл бұрын

I think companies like Wolfram, Mathworks, etc. need to do a better job of reaching out to community colleges and prioritizing the distribution of, and access to, their software there. If he does want to see a world where these types of tools are more widely adopted, community college licensing partnerships is an area where he could focus that would help expose more "normal" people to these kinds of tools.

@MuhammadAli-dk6dz 4 жыл бұрын

I would disagree, it is not academia but industry where the target should be. This language can certainly have mass adaptation and the use in the industry determines if the language will have any future or not. Wolfram if start giving incentives to small businesses and market properly to large businesses then its adoption will increase and create opportunities for developers and users of the language.

@connorfinnerty1366 4 жыл бұрын

@@MuhammadAli-dk6dz While I agree that industry adoption should be their primary business target, I worry about the difficulty of getting widespread adoption of a technology with a steep difficulty curve. Normal people need constant and regular exposure to these kinds of tools for their increased usage in businesses to not be viewed as nuisance inefficiency by their employers. Wolfram language has the potential to be fun, interesting, and useful for people in everyday ways that is not true of other specialized programming languages/computing platforms. This should be viewed as an opportunity for massive growth broadly in society that will yield massive dividends later on, but with relatively little investment costs.

@MuhammadAli-dk6dz 4 жыл бұрын

@@connorfinnerty1366 I worked in a company where I was able to convince them to use Wolfram language and managed to created solutions that they thought wouldn't be possible or would take a very long time. On the other hand in another company, I failed to convince them since they already had joined the cult of python when I entered and all the people sing praises of python like an anthem and refused to even look at Wolfram language.

@giovannisantostasi9615 Жыл бұрын

And within 2 years we have GPT-4 that addresses most of these questions.

@wcatcher5622 4 жыл бұрын

For someone this intelligent and learned to not understand the adoption curve is hilarious.

@adam_isaac_mp 2 жыл бұрын

This interviewer sounds like he’s doing a James Franco impression lol

@dickdickson3608 4 жыл бұрын

i mean he's marketing a product for the top teams and minds - well, that's not going to gain mass adaptation

@curiosguy9852 4 жыл бұрын

Get Geoffrey Hinton!

@scorpion6828 4 жыл бұрын

He can't sit

@uiuctalkshow Жыл бұрын

To learn more Wolfram thoughts on about college, AI, and the Computational Universe. Watch our interview with him.

@MassMultiplayer 4 жыл бұрын

Drowning tail... so true.. I feel this with art. exausted in dead ends. now i detect them very fast and avoid those Drowning Tail

@Wodepaya 4 жыл бұрын

People need to hurry up and learn how to protect themselves against when this will happen. Time is short! It starts with learning how to stay in control of your own

@EduardoSanchez-in9zj 4 жыл бұрын

a plunger LMFAO jajajajaajajaajjaloooooooooooooool

@igormendonca4026 9 ай бұрын

agreeable ESTJ with developed Si and Ne

@JulianWyzing 14 күн бұрын

I suppose there are some answers to add to that

@arayiagirmay1406 4 жыл бұрын

Wolfram Language should be what Neuralink is working with.

@mahoneytechnologies657 3 жыл бұрын

I remember my first contact with a normal computer, I typed in "Who are you?" Wolfram language might give me an Answer! No Answer so I went to my Assembly language programming class.

@christopherho8015 3 жыл бұрын

A product running on Wolfram Languages is basically a Jarvis System which doesn't speak

@bullishtingles1384 4 жыл бұрын

Creating a computer language that symbolically hold as much of human knowledge as possible and then applying AI/Machine learning tools to explore all we know.... Is this how we begin to create our own universe?

@samueloliveira7699 3 жыл бұрын

What is the code in Wolfram language that counts: how many times have the words "you know" been used by Stephen Wolfram in this video? 😂

@Anonymous-kj6cu 4 жыл бұрын

Godfram

@projectpegasus1297 2 жыл бұрын

what would a cat+elaphant=

@mindeyi 4 жыл бұрын

1. Theory of the Universe. 2. Meta-Language for Everything. 3. Goal-Aligment for Life... Basically, the same areas, that I most care about...

@iakovspirin2896 4 жыл бұрын

So you do BJJ and youre in IT!!!!! I want to be your friend mate hahaha

@notforever123 3 жыл бұрын

5:34 why is this still not a meme?

@Think_Global 4 жыл бұрын

The knowledge of the world in a programming language? Does that sound like a simulation alpha?

@emblemcc Жыл бұрын

AI: The point is that the AI will be considered human once it will talk in "human" haw, meaning it will answer question in limited way as humans do, while now it tries to answer anything, which is naturally non-human like behavior. Plus and most importantly AI should be able to start do conversation and lead it. So far there is only one way we let the AI to communicate and that is to answer our questions. Plus people still have the notion that it needs to behave as a calculator, always return truthful information while the same thing do no expect from humans. The fact that people think that computer must always respond given question and that it will not harm any living soul is the gateway to oblivion, as this paradigm is applicable only in theory, like working communism, it just not gonna happen as people are not uniform and any consequence is not single output only. Apart from that.. the symbolic features of the Wolfram language is a perfect example how the calculator like computer response is far gone.

@hieudang3078 4 жыл бұрын

This dude is smart. I can say that. Lol

@laughingvampire7555 Жыл бұрын

Wolfram is a Lisp with Meta-Expressions

@davidh00 2 жыл бұрын

Cost is the primary reason for low adoption.

@user-pn7jk9sj8b Ай бұрын

❤

@cannaroe1213 4 жыл бұрын

I always thought Wolfram Alpha was a forced meme.

@Someone-cr8cj 4 жыл бұрын

GAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA PLUNGER 57%

@melvynbraithwaite8563 2 жыл бұрын

Stephan it is a language as Directed by our Creator at the time of zCreation.Now being ridiculed by "Minions" MBraithwaite Yorkshire Viking

@carlosgray3107 4 жыл бұрын

Wolfram was hacked! You run through these things before getting on camera. Those don't look like the answers he expected!

@MuhammadAli-dk6dz 4 жыл бұрын

I wish the industry accepts WL and not try to weasel its way out with cheap stuff like python.

@davidh00 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think the industry can afford what he's charging.

@MuhammadAli-dk6dz 2 жыл бұрын

@@davidh00 The most expensive version is CAD 8,510 for an entire lifetime license for an enterprise private cloud. Are you saying the industry can't afford this?

@davidh00 2 жыл бұрын

@@MuhammadAli-dk6dz No. I'm saying developers learning WL can't afford the model where all cloud calls are charged.