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Published · transcript-backedSarah Saab: evaluation
18 Oct 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk The Secret Engine of AI - Prolific [Sponsored] (Sara Saab, Enzo Blindow)
“So I was talking to Claude about the halting problem a few days ago, and I was like, well, do you mean the algorithm won't end, or do you mean someone won't unplug the computer? And Claude goes, no, I mean, the algorithm won't end, you know, if we cannot confirm or deny whether the algorithm would end, and I just I just thought to myself, that seems kind of nonsensical to me because, you know, the universe will end.”
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- 18 Oct 2025
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…Yes. Tell me more. The idea that computers and and AI systems are somehow in a privileged isolated tower of algorithm and separate from reality in the world is just completely untrue. So I was talking to Claude about the halting problem a few days ago, and I was like, well, do you mean the algorithm won't end, or do you mean someone won't unplug the computer? And Claude goes, no, I mean, the algorithm won't end, you know, if we cannot confirm or deny whether the algorithm would end, and I just I just thought to myself, that seems kind of nonsensical to me because, you know, the universe will end. Someone will unplug the computer. I think that kind of comes to this fundamental thing, which is we are just not separate from the world, and computers are not separate from the world, and AI models are not separate from the world. So the sort of the ecological pressing on each other feels really important to that whole story. Yes. And how does this inform the work that you do at Prolific?…
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