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Re:Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think by BobaFloutist on Friday December 12, 2025 @02:44PM (#46247957)
What's a definition of thinking that brains definitely provably can't do?
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Re:Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think by _alternator_ on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:20PM (#46249116)
Computing the Kolmorgorov constant?
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Re:Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think by BobaFloutist on Friday December 12, 2025 @05:04PM (#46249559)
I don't know that I agree that computation is a variety of thinking. It's certainly influenced by thinking, but I think of thinking as more the thing you do before, after, and in-between the computation, not the actual computation itself.
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Re:Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think by ben_w on Friday December 12, 2025 @05:54PM (#46250047)
Halting problem.

There are people who insist that the halting problem "proves" that machines will never be able to think. That this means they don't understand the difference between writing down (or generating a proof of) the halting problem and the implications of the halting problem, does not stop them from using it.

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