Turing Completeness Proven For Language Models
Language model prompting is Turing complete, meaning it can perform any possible computation. Researchers demonstrated how to design prompts that simulate a given Turing machine, showing the unbounded computational power of language models.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called From prompts to programs: Language models' unbounded computational power. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow me on Twitter. Overview This paper explores the Turing completeness of language model prompting, demonstrating that prompts can be used to perform arbitrary computations. The researchers show that prompts can be used to simulate any Turing machine, proving the Turing completeness of prompting. They provide a constructive proof to demonstrate this, outlining how to design...