Wow, he waits until halfway through the article to mention A New Kind of Science. Usually he works it into the first couple of paragraphs!

I known it’s hard to believe but I sense LLMs have slightly knocked his ego down and injected a small dose of humility.

https://youtu.be/z5WZhCBRDpU

I pick that up in above video and also in the post above.

Definitely healthy for him which just to be clear I’m a huge Wolfram fan and the ego doesn’t really bother me, it’s just part of who he is, however I do find it nice that LLMs are having him self reflect more than typical.

Not a big Wolfram fan myself. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and bought "A New Kind of Science" (freakin' expensive when it first came out), and read the whole 1280 pages cover to cover ... Would have been better presented as a short blog post.

I find it funny how despite being completely uninvolved in ChatGPT he felt the need to inject himself into the conversation and write a book about it. I guess it's the sort of important stuff that he felt an important person like himself should be educating the plebes on.

Predictably he had no insight into it and will have left the plebes thinking it's something related to MNIST and cat-detection.

I just happen to read this article of him, which I found easy to understand. I'm neither a huge proponent nor opponent of the likes of his work. Or, bluntly speaking: I don’t know much else about his reputation in the community.