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So Oracle's working on an LLM too, eh?

Everybody and their mom are into LLMs.

Same thing happened with the Internet.

And Second Life and Myspace.

<cough> halting problem. But now I'm spoiling it.

We know neural networks cannot solve the halting problem. But isn’t the question whether they can learn the transition table for game of life? Since each cell depends only on neighbors, this is as easy as memorizing how each 3x3 tile transitions.

The original question, maybe. Mine is basically the halting problem, I think.

The other difference is I don't take it seriously.

Wolfram looked at this recently on his blog.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-does-biologi...

He says it's possible for smaller games (fewer rules) but unlikely for larger ones.. IMHO anything Turing complete would have this problem.

The halting problem doesn't mean you can never decide if something cycles etc, just that you can't always decide.

As it stands, my guess is that the LLM would always confidently make a decision, even if it were wrong, and then politely backtrack if you pushed backed, even if it were originally right.

For a grid of a fixed size, yes.