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by adityaathalye 785 days ago
Like the halting problem, I think LLM tech is a "Halting AI" situation. I wrote about it here last month: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/halting-ai/

> This riff derives from a recent "AI Programmer" story that's making people in my corner of the nerdiverse sit up and talk, at a time when hot new AI happenings have become mundane.

> ...

> It is yet another prompt for me to take the lowkey counterfactual bet against the AI wave, in favour of good old flesh and blood humans, and our chaotic, messy systems.

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interestingly enough, your can ask ChatGPT is a function that calculates all the Fibonacci numbers will ever complete, and it'll say no, so it seems we've solved the halting problem, for cases where the problem's been discussed in the training data.