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Summary
This document is a page from a book (page 181), stamped as evidence by the House Oversight Committee. It acts as an introduction to an essay by Stephen Wolfram, written by the founder of 'The Reality Club' and 'Edge.org' (historically John Brockman). The text details the narrator's long-standing professional relationship with Wolfram, spanning from a meeting in the narrator's NYC living room in the 1980s to a recorded interview about AI in Cambridge, MA, four years prior to the text's writing.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Stephen Wolfram | Scientist / Subject |
Described as a pioneer in computational thinking, a 'wunderkind', and the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha.
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| Narrator (Implied: John Brockman) | Author / Organizer |
The person writing the text ('I'), who established 'The Reality Club' and 'Edge.org'. Note: While not named in the te...
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| The Reality Club |
An informal gathering of intellectuals established by the narrator.
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| Edge.org |
The online version of The Reality Club, launched in 1996.
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| Institute for Advanced Study |
Institution in Princeton where Stephen Wolfram had arrived.
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| Wolfram|Alpha |
Computational knowledge engine created by Wolfram.
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| Edge |
Organization for which the video conversation was recorded.
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Timeline (2 events)
1980s
First meeting/speech of The Reality Club.
Narrator's living room, New York City
Stephen Wolfram
Narrator
Four years prior to publication
Locations (4)
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Location where The Reality Club met.
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Location of the Institute for Advanced Study.
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Meeting location between the narrator and Wolfram 'four years ago'.
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Location of the first Reality Club speech.
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Relationships (1)
Narrator hosted Wolfram at The Reality Club in the 80s and interviewed him for Edge in Cambridge.
Key Quotes (2)
"Our first speaker? Stephen Wolfram, a “wunderkind” who had arrived in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study."Source
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"Stephen walked in, said hello, sat down, and, looking at the video camera set up to record the conversation for Edge, began to talk and didn’t stop for two and a half hours."Source
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Over nearly four decades, Stephen Wolfram has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking and responsible for many innovations in science, technology and business.
His 1982 paper “Cellular Automata as Simple Self-Organizing Systems,” written at the age of twenty-three, was the first of numerous significant scientific contributions aimed at understanding the origins of complexity in nature.
It was around this time that Stephen briefly came into my life. I had established The Reality Club, an informal gathering of intellectuals who met in New York City to present their work before peers in other disciplines. (Note: In 1996, The Reality Club went online as Edge.org). Our first speaker? Stephen Wolfram, a “wunderkind” who had arrived in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study. I distinctly recall his focused manner as he sat down on a couch in my living room and spoke uninterrupted for about an hour before the assembled group.
Since that time, Stephen has become intent making the world’s knowledge easily computable and accessible. His program Mathematica is the definitive system for modern technical computing. Wolfram|Alpha computes expert-level answers using AI technology. He considers his Wolfram Language to be the first true computational communication language for humans and AIs.
I caught up with him again four years ago, when we arranged to meet in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a freewheeling conversation about AI. Stephen walked in, said hello, sat down, and, looking at the video camera set up to record the conversation for Edge, began to talk and didn’t stop for two and a half hours.
The essay that follows is an edited version of that session, which was a Wolfram master class of sorts and is an appropriate way to end this volume—just as Stephen’s Reality Club talk in the ’80s was a great way to initiate the ongoing intellectual enterprise whose result is the rich community of thinkers presenting their work to one another and to the public in this book.
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