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This got me thinking is it Turing complete?

• faizshah 4y ago
  Prompt: “Program: for i in range(10): if(i % 2): print(f”{i}”) Output:” Output: “1 3 5 7 9” This is definitely worth a lot more investigation.
  • int_19h 4y ago
    That it can interpret pseudocode has been discovered a while ago. It can even do functions and recursion. But it's not good at arithmetic on numbers, once they get large enough. What's even more interesting is that you can "teach" it languages, either by explaining what something does, or by providing examples. For example, if you feed it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Commands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Commands, it can handle simple Brainfuck programs (but gets confused esp. by nested loops).
    • faizshah 4y ago
      Huh, you’re right: https://mayt.substack.com/p/gpt-3-can-run-code https://mayt.substack.com/p/gpt-3-can-run-code Thanks!
      • int_19h 4y ago
        I think there's a lot still to discover. E.g. recently I found out that it can do this (although getting the table aligned took a couple of refreshes): Use pseudographics to render the following HTML: <table border="1"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Value</th></tr> <tr><td rowspan="2">Foo</td><td>123</td></tr> <tr><td>456</td></tr> <tr><td>Bar</td><td>789</td></tr> </table> +-------+-------+ | Name | Value | +-------+-------+ | Foo | 123 | | | 456 | +-------+-------+ | Bar | 789 | +-------+-------+ So I guess we could say that GPT-3 also has some kind of simple HTML layout engine! I was particularly impressed that it got rowspan right. I guess the next step would be to combine HTML with JS and see if GPT-3 has a mutable DOM...
  • cfcf14 4y ago
    I discovered a while ago that you can ask GPT-3 for the output of even extremely obfuscated javascript code and it will produce the correct results most of the time.