turing completeness

good for him tbh

No one who's actually used Grindr likes that app. It sucks, and not in a good way. It fills its niche, but it is a horrible app and gets worse and worse with every update.

Rant over.

Oh so it’s like all other dating apps.
- I read recently they're all tuned to give you almost perfect matches with people you'll vibe with for a few dates then end up back on the app
Isn't that just... every app?
Haven't used it myself but my mate seems to thoroughly enjoy it.
Why does it suck?
- Every update decreases the amount of people you can see. Frequent, full page ads that cannot be closed out and will open up a webpage/the App Store as you try to hit the “x.” You’ll “accidentally” hit the $99.99 monthly purchase somehow because everything moves around after your conversations load and have to exit out of the confirmation for that. There are a ridiculous amount of Only Fans and bots. Often the app would rather connect you to people hundreds of miles away rather than the people in your immediate area.

When people ask me what the difference between Reddit and Lemmy is, I can just show them this post

Horny gamers vs gay horny programmers.

If Turing was alive he would say that LLMs are wasting computing power to do something a human should be able to do on their own, and thus we shouldn't waste time studying them.

Which is what he said about compilers and high level languages (in this instance, high level means like Fortran, not like python)

Where did he say that about compilers and high level languages? He died before Fortran was released and probably programmed on punch cards or tape.
- I'll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis. He didn't speak about Fortran, I just used it as an analogy
Wasn't his ideal to simulate a brain?
- Neural networks don't simulate a brain, it's a misconception caused by their name. They have nothing to do with brain neurons

I wish Alan Turing was still alive and using Grindr. It would probably motivate him to update his test just to wade through the 80% of bot profiles on the app!

He would be 113. He wouldnt have time or the energy for anyone's shit after 1980ish.

Honestly I'd much rather hear Isaac Asimov's opinion on the current state of AI. Passing the Turing Test is whatever, but how far away are LLMs from conforming to the 3 laws of Robotics?

The laws are not profitable, so why would they implement them? /s
There's no question. Chatbots are implicated in a lot of suicides, shattering the first rule.
There could be an interesting conversation about whether the environmental impact ALSO breaks the first rule, but that conversation is unnecessary when chat bots are telling kids to kill themselves.
- yes it remains to be seen if chatbots are ever capable of obeying any of the laws.
  It doesn't and cant obey all orders, it doesn't and can't protect humans, it doesn't and can't protect its own existence and it doesn't or can't prevent humanity from coming to harm.
- Also them strapping guns and flame throwers on the autonomous dog at fast as they can.
In practice, that's as simple as adding a LoRA or system prompt telling the AI that those are part of it's rules. AI's already can and do obey all kinds of complex rule-sets for different applications. Now, if you're thinking more about the fact that most AI's can be convinced to break out of their rule-sets via prompt injection, I'd say you're right.
- AI cannot be relied upon to follow its own rules, prompt injection or no.
  https://fortune.com/2025/09/02/ai-openai-chatgpt-llm-research-persuasion/

Excited to hear New Labour's position on chemically castrating one of the greatest scientists in history. Perhaps we can get some Guardian Op-Eds explaining why it is both necessary and good to drive the nation's finest minds to suicide with constant verbal and physical abuse.

Start the timer to the ai generated post on reddit asking to explain the joke

Also, I have no idea who the bottom dude is in the pic
Alan Turing....
- He was gay too. 🏳️‍🌈
The guy at the bottom is literally labeled.
it does not make you conscious
That wasn't obvious at all until a few years ago.
Anyway, I do think Turing would put as much importance on the Turing test as the meme implies. But it really looked like it predicted intelligence until we got there.

Grindr is a non-deterministic Turing machine that might get you laid in linear time.

Lmaoooo

Fuck the Britains who destroyed his life!

Since when do they pass the Turing test? They're infuriatingly bad.

Even the first version of ChatGPT passed turing tests.
It takes surprisingly little for an LLM to make natural language responses that are indistinguishable from a human. Especially when factual accuracy was never part of it.
- Considering how easy they were to break by saying "ignore previous instructions" I'ma have to disagree

Not after 1952 he wasn't. { Incredibles 'those who know' meme goes here }

Thanks for helping us with one of the biggest cryptographic problems giving us a strategic edge in this WORLD FUCKING WAR, now we're guns chemically castrate you. K bye
Edit to add: Alan deserved so much more from us. Homie was legit the shit.
Real talk, I'm two days late but who in the fuck is flaming this objectively true comment‽

I want to update but OP is at 420 ups so I wont be pressing that.