Ask, and it shall be given: On the Turing completeness of prompting · HackerPapers discussions

Ask, and it shall be given: On the Turing completeness of prompting — mentioned by ivraatiems

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:01:01 GMT

That doesn't seem right to me. If I understand it right, your logic is: 1. Humans intellect is Turing computable. 2. LLMs are based on Turing-complete technology. 3. Therefore, LLMs can eventually equal human intellect. But if that is the right chain of assumptions, there's lots of issues with it. First, whether LLMs are Turing complete is a topic of debate. There are points for[0] and against[1]. I suspect they probably _are_, but that doesn't mean LLMs are tautologically indistinguishable from human intelligence. Every computer that uses a Turing-complete programming language can…

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Ask, and it shall be given: On the Turing completeness of prompting — mentioned by zihotki

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:02:21 GMT

LLMs are turing complete ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01992 ). Or what is your definition of 'count'?

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Ask, and it shall be given: On the Turing completeness of prompting — HN submission

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:31:33 GMT

Ask, and it shall be given: Turing completeness of prompting

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Ask, and it shall be given: On the Turing completeness of prompting — HN submission

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:45:39 GMT

Ask, and it shall be given: Turing completeness of prompting

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