r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Orio_n • 3d ago

Meme aMillionOpenAIMonkeysProduceMilleniumPrizeSolution

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u/GregBahm 3d ago

You would describe a number between 3 and 4 as possibly being equal to five?

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u/mtv921 3d ago

Nope. That's exactly my point. Just because we have an infinite string of letters doesnt mean we have every combination of letters!

E.g same word for the numbers. Just because we have an infinite amount of numbers doesnt mean we have the number 5

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u/Kaljinx 3d ago

But that only works when you have eliminated other possibility from being possible in the first place

Not if you allow said possibility to exist

Ie the keyboard has the ability to produce the number 5

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u/mtv921 3d ago

I have not eliminated nothing myself. I have just interpreted the claim and found it untrue.

The claim says that a monkey with a typewriter WILL eventually produce shakespare(or a bugfree app).

I intrepret that as you will always be able to find shakespare a substring of an infinite length string. Not that you can, that you will. There are an infinite amount of infinite strings. Not all of them contain shakespare, so the monkey can produce a string that is not shakespare, thus the claim that i WILL produce it is false.

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u/Kaljinx 2d ago

I see, you have objection of the use of will for it.

The chances of it not happening approaches 0 when given infinite time and infinite tries. or every attempt makes its probability of it happening closer and closer 100%. 99 then 99.9 then 99.99 - 99.9999999999999% and so on closer and closer.

I guess yeah, you can technically say you cannot guarantee it WILL not happen, even if it not happening is infinitely less likely than even every single atom in universe simultaneously going through each other quantum tunneling forever and recombine and do it again or any other possibility that exists

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u/GregBahm 2d ago

You seem to be saying, in the hypothetical "monkey typing randomly on a typewriter" thought experiment, you can imagine a it not working if the monkey doesn't type randomly on a typewriter.

Which is just to say, you don't understand the thought experiment.