Chatgpt App

Wolfram|Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram explains how his symbolic AI engine complements the generative AI of ChatGPT, via its new plugin.

“In a sense, what we’ve already done with Wolfram Language is automate out that boilerplate, by having the one function that just does the equivalent of that big slab of lower-level code. Alpha, it does look very much like a pointer to the future of programming computers. Alpha will do the work in the background, and ChatGPT will deliver the answer to you. We then edit that code, or tell it to edit that code.” Indeed, he claimed that the language Wolfram Well, other than the fact that ChatGPT is vastly more popular already, it also has the ability to restructure questions on the fly to get a good answer. After all, if the Wolfram plugin can do complex symbolic computation via natural language instructions, isn’t that replacing what a human programmer (of, say, Java or Python) does? Alpha is back in the news now, as one of the first “ [plugins](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins)” for ChatGPT, [announced last week](https://www.techmeme.com/230323/p25#a230323p25) by OpenAI. Alpha is a so-called “symbolic AI” engine, which means it tries to emulate the way a human brain learns. Alpha ever went away (and yes, it still has “alpha” in the product name). “The fact is that, as a practical matter, LLMs are making statistically reasonable pieces of text, which may or may not actually be the way the world is. As Wolfram founder Stephen Wolfram put it in [a recent podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKV8_N1b5RI), these two types of AI are now being brought together.