[FRIAM] Wolfram interview w/Sean Kim

[steve smith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg1u11IHFj8

No matter your opinion of Wolfram and his works,  I think this is a very 
insightful reflection on the history of AI as observed/experienced from 
his unique perspective.

I met him in 1983 when he was still a "boy genius" at 24.   He attended 
(presenting his Universality and Complexity paper) the Cellular Automata 
conference at LASL that year and as I remember it, he also introduced 
Feynman who gave his "Plenty of Room at the Bottom" lecture 
afterwards.   Dissimilar to our current crop of "boy geniuses", he did 
not present with any of the "on the spectrum" affect, though his hubris 
and narcissism were in full display.  I chose to start watching this 
(2.5hrs!) just to get a fresh taste of his affect, after finding him 
difficult unto insufferable back when New Kind of Science was still new 
(in spite of the work standing well on it's own).

His presentation in this interview (so far - 20 mins in) reads very 
"matter of fact" and nearly dryly historical but (to me) factually 
accurate and astute.   Having lived through most of the same history he 
presents (me mostly as an interested outsider), it is one "greatest 
hits" nostalgia moment after another starting with LISP and Prolog and 
the Japanese 5g computing aspiration, expert systems, early neural nets, 
etc.


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