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Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award winner: ‘There is empirical evidence of AI acting against our instructions’
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-02-03/yoshua-bengio-turing-award-winner-…

Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award winner: ‘There is empirical evidence of AI acting against our instructions’
The scientist, a pioneer in neural networks, warns that ‘the capabilities of artificial intelligence continue to advance at a rate which seems faster than risk management practices’

The "Turing Test" is not an actually relevant test for ... anything really.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
It's cute and interesting from a psychological and historical standpoint but that's it. It's not an actual metric.

What LLMs and the Turing test¹ tell us: most of us not only are² stochastic parrots³ but are also fine with that – otherwise we would not happily use LLMs to produce all the output we communicate to others.
One could frame this as “insult to humanity” but I prefer to call it telling.
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¹the Turing test does _not_ measure “intelligence”. I recommend to read the original paper:

I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE : A.M Turing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY ANDINTELLIGENCE1. The Imitation Game.I PROPOSE to consider the question, ' Can machines think ? 'This should begin with definitions of...

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More info: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/turing-ai-global-fellowsh…

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from my link log —
Turing completeness of GNU find: from mkdir-assisted loops to standalone computation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20762
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Turing Completeness of GNU find: From mkdir-assisted Loops to Standalone Computation
The Unix command \texttt{find} is among the first commands taught to beginners, yet remains indispensable for experienced engineers. In this paper, we demonstrate that \texttt{find} possesses unexpected computational power, establishing three Turing completeness results using the GNU implementation (a standard in Linux distributions). (1) \texttt{find} + \texttt{mkdir} (a system that has only \texttt{find} and \texttt{mkdir}) is Turing complete: by encoding computational states as directory pat…

The "Computational Theory of Mind" has become the modern secular religion, promising that if we just find the right algorithm, we can replicate intelligence.
And it is wrong ...
https://www.ocrampal.com/computation-is-limited-the-hidden-f…

Computation is not the right framework to comprehend the concept of life and intelligence
We live in a computational age. When we want to formalize our thoughts—to express ideas precisely, to build models of intelligence, to create systems that reason—we almost instinctively reach for computation. The Church-Turing thesis tells us that any "effectively computable" function can be computed by a Turing machine,

Crosslisted article(s) found for nlin.PS. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.PS/new
[1/1]:
- Turing patterns in Matrix-Weighted Networks
Anna Gallo, Wilfried Segnou, Timoteo Carletti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13080 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstatmech_bot/116079407955524567
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Trying to vibe-prove something about un-computability I ran across this:
"Turing machines have become the de facto standard formulation of computable functions, but they are also notorious for requiring a lot of tedious encoding in order to get the theory off the ground, to the extent that the term “Turing tarpit” is now used for languages in which “everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."
via
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol141-itp2019/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.12/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.12.pdf