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That video segment never mentions "AI", and it never says that the halting problem has been solved -- it explicitly says it's unsolvable. What it says is that s
by teraflop 5y ago
That video segment never mentions "AI", and it never says that the halting problem has been solved -- it explicitly says it's unsolvable. What it says is that solutions to the halting problem could be verified under a certain computational model.
That's obviously an extremely rough summary of what the paper shows, but I'm not sure how one could do better in a 3-minute summary for a non-expert audience. And based on Scott Aaronson's response to the paper, it seems like calling it a "landmark" result is very reasonable:
> Still, assuming this one stands (as I’m guessing it will), I regard it as easily one of the biggest complexity-theoretic (and indeed computability-theoretic!) surprises so far in this century. Huge congratulations to the authors on what looks to be a historic achievement.
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4512 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4512
- _game_of_life 5y agoThanks, I appreciate you taking the time to correct me. I looked at some articles from quanta on mathematics I am more familiar with and they were pretty good so I definitely misjudged them. It's just getting so hard to figure out what's sensationalist and what is not these days.