Cellular Automata and Rule 30 (Stephen Wolfram) | AI Podcast Clips

Wolfram says it was around June 1, 1984. He probably remembers the hour, minute, and second as well! :)

Absolutely amazing guest, great interview. Loved every minute of it. The complex deriving from simplicity is absolutely beautiful

Great work lex. I love the interviews.

Such a fascinating conversation. Both of you are looking for the ultimate meaning of everything around us.

This was an amazing podcast. Thank you Lex.

Thank you so much. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

I had not heard of Lex Fridman, but his soliloquy around the 5:00 minute mark made this video exponentially good. Wolfram is my current hero.

I'd normally leave a pun in the comments, but this video was just so extraordinary that I don't want to cheapen it in any way. I think it was just phenomenal, and I'm so glad that it was made and uploaded. Unlike so many other "inspirational" material on YouTube, I think that this genuinely is.

One aspect that makes the unrepeating patterns arising from rule 30 not entirely surprising is that the state state keeps increasing. We are used to maximal length generators with fixed state, that emit complex patterns that visit every state. With the 1D line of bits ever expanding, you always have more state and so the number of possible states increases for faster than the number of lines. The rules may be simple, but they are also simple for say, a maximal length lfsr. That doesn't make it uninteresting, quite the opposite. But suprising - no.

thank you so much for sharing

Rule 30 and Concept 19, 21, 23, 24 those are what interest me most. #3767 His books are great. Almost as terrific as Lex interviews.

Rule 30 is my favorite Rule from NKS. It display an extremely wide variety of fundamental behaviors in the same simple graphic. We rarely get to see that in the same place.

The key to understanding chaos theory is to separate determinability with predictability. These two are no longer together and many people have a hard time wrapping their heads around this.

Quite surprising that this rule had such a profound impact on this brilliant man, that his whole view on science changed! Still, it's hard to believe that it would be that random of a structure, but on the other hand, if he did study it a lot, it has to be worth studying for others as well.

i like that Stephen showws visuals , good guest good host.

Many Kudos !!

Thanks just bought the book

Also I'd like to add that these videos are important science documents ... important for humanity. Not necessarily important for academia, but important for humanity. It would be great if some of these were available on Vimeo where they can be downloaded and collected by students of these subjects.

Excellent choice.

Idk about the “magic” of experiencing this, but the emergence of complex patterns from simple rules is fascinating. I watched an ant time lapse after this and it got me thinking, just how Complex the behavior of ants is. The rules they work on might include their DNA and qualities of sand, and those are complex rules! “Cracking” this might be quite challenging. Although I have seen ‘rules’ for bird flocks, where they avoid obstacles, fly together, and slightly change their own patterns to mimics those near them, and even a few simple rules can mimic the complex behaviors of life.