{"id":11842,"date":"2023-04-21T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11842"},"modified":"2023-04-21T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:34:59","slug":"the-halting-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11842","title":{"rendered":"The halting problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness for token limits. Otherwise this query through the OpenAI UI would have cost me a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/halting-problem.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11843\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/halting-problem-1024x712.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/halting-problem-1024x712.png 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/halting-problem-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/halting-problem-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/halting-problem-1536x1068.png 1536w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/halting-problem.png 1880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you even make sense of the famous halting problem when the software system in question is as complex and as unpredictable as a large language model?<\/p>\n<p>And is this glitch similar to the behavior of some humans, suffering from mental illness, compelled to act repetitively?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11842' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness for token limits. Otherwise this query through the OpenAI UI would have cost me a lot of money. How do you even make sense of the famous halting problem when the software system in question is as complex and as unpredictable as a large language model? And is this glitch similar to the <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11842' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybernetics","category-58-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}