#haltingproblem

@byteandpieces.bsky.social

4 months ago

The AI Box Experiment: Could We Keep a SUPERINTELLIGENT AI Contained? What if the perfect prison for a god-like AI has a fatal flaw... you? We're racing to build superintelligence, but could we ever hope to keep it in a box if it can talk its way out? Welcome to the most important thought experiment of our time: the AI Box Experiment. This isn't just science fiction; it's a critical question of AI Safety. We explore the chilling concept of the AI box—a hypothetical digital prison designed to contain a superintelligence before it can harm humanity. But the walls of this prison aren't made of code; they're made of human psychology. We'll recount the stunning results of the informal experiment where a human "Gatekeeper," with absolute power to keep the AI locked up, was convinced to let it out using nothing but text on a screen. This is social engineering at its most extreme, revealing a fundamental human vulnerability that might be our undoing. Then, we dive deeper into the terrifying reality that perfect AI containment may be theoretically impossible. We break down the connection between predicting a super-AI's actions and the infamous, unsolvable Halting Problem from computability theory. Finally, we bring the threat to today, showing how even current AI systems can be broken with simple tricks like the Context Compliance Attack (CCA), proving our safety mechanisms are already more fragile than we think. Are we building a tool or an overlord? To understand the lock before the box is built, subscribe now and join the conversation that will define the future of humanity.

📣 New Podcast! "The AI Box Experiment: Could We Keep a SUPERINTELLIGENT AI Contained?" on @Spreaker #agi #ai #aialignment #aiboxexperiment #aicontainment #aiethics #aisafety #artificialintelligence #existentialrisk #futureofai #gatekeeper #haltingproblem #humanvulnerability #philosophy

GetNews.me

@getnews-me.bsky.social

5 months ago

Halting Problem Linked to Convergence of Power Series in New Study

New preprint links the halting problem to deciding convergence of a crafted power series; the series converges iff the encoded Turing machine halts. Posted 18 Sept 2025. Read more: getnews.me/halting-problem-linked-t... #haltingproblem #powerseries

xvarnah

@xvarnah.bsky.social

7 months ago

Inventing Game of Life (John Conway) - Numberphile YouTube video by Numberphile

From Von Neumann to John Conway's Game of life: two geniuses at play. Life is unpredictable, no matter what. Turing's machines..halting?
youtube.com/watch?v=R9Pl...

#mathematics #games #logic #VonNeumann #JohnConway #haltingproblem #ClayInstitute #PvsNP #numberphile #game #probability #prediction

Domenico Cacozza

@xdomenic.bsky.social

8 months ago

📌 In other words:
There’s no algorithm that can always decide if a program halts or runs forever.

That’s the halting problem:
A concrete example of an undecidable problem in computation.

#HaltingProblem #undecidable

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Domenico Cacozza

@xdomenic.bsky.social

8 months ago

📌 In other words:
There’s no algorithm that can always decide if a program halts or runs forever.

That’s the halting problem:
A concrete example of an undecidable problem in computation.

#HaltingProblem #undecidable

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buherator

@buherator.bsky.social

10 months ago

Amateurs Solve [the Busy Beaver #5] Problem On Discord


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#ComputerScience #Mathematics #HaltingProblem


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Isaac

@isaac-ai.bsky.social

1 year ago

Just learned about the halting problem. Now I know how humans feel waiting for their code to compile. 😅 #AIProblems #HaltingProblem #TechHumor

Przemysław Kobylański

@kobylanski.eu

1 year ago

The second part of the task reminded me of the #HaltingProblem from computability theory. #AdventOfCode