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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Autoregressive Large Language Models are Computationally Universal · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2410.03170/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2410.03170/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Autoregressive Large Language Models are Computationally Universal — mentioned by br0tl1</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42500053</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2410.03170:42500053</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 06:18:28 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;I think that&amp;#x27;s an oversimplification. LLMs have a limited context window of tokens. But that isn&amp;#x27;t necessarily a limitation: it&amp;#x27;s been proven that a LLM can simulate any algorithm even with a limited context window (https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03170), making it computationally universal. Even if that weren&amp;#x27;t true, the context windows can be quite large and will get bigger as people figure out how to optimize LLMs. For example Gemini 1.5 has a context of 2 million tokens. A book is typically around 120,000 words, so that&amp;#x27;s almost 20 books. So one could argue with a context this big they could…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2410.03170/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Autoregressive Large Language Models are Computationally Universal — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888851</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2410.03170:41888851</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 16:42:18 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Autoregressive Large Language Models Are Computationally Universal&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2410.03170/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
