A professor of computer science explains why the original limitations of Turing Machines still govern the age of advanced AI like ChatGPT. Reading time 4 minutes Empowered by artificial intelligence ...

However, there's a problem with this, which I can't resolve. Anyone who's done a computing machinery course will have heard of the Halting Problem, or Self Applicability, or some variant thereof.

Once upon a time, over 40 years ago, a horde of computer scientists descended on the West German city of Dortmund. They were competing to catch an elusive quarry — only four of its kind had ever been ...