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Humans themselves slowly become pressured to conform to the limits of what is algorithmically computable rather than technological systems being designed around the realities of human life and the limits of human expression.
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Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Their deep understanding of the data's structure and constraints helps ensure new features are both meaningful and computable at scale.
—Abdul Muqtadir Mohammed Zubair, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The performance of the AI solution depends much more on the behaviors of users and changes to the work environment than on quantitative measures that are computable by an AI assurance laboratory.
—Mark P. Sendak, STAT, 7 Feb. 2024
Hence, a computable function is a function that has a Turing machine to compute it.
—Sheon Han, Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2023
Humans have these non-computable assets, including love, empathy and hope, for example….Ones that artificial intelligence will never understand.
—Scott Whitlock, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2023
Gödel held out his recursive functions as eminently computable, and Ritchie showed that loop programs were just the right tools for that job.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2020
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Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Their deep understanding of the data's structure and constraints helps ensure new features are both meaningful and computable at scale.
—Abdul Muqtadir Mohammed Zubair, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The performance of the AI solution depends much more on the behaviors of users and changes to the work environment than on quantitative measures that are computable by an AI assurance laboratory.
—Mark P. Sendak, STAT, 7 Feb. 2024
Hence, a computable function is a function that has a Turing machine to compute it.
—Sheon Han, Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2023
Humans have these non-computable assets, including love, empathy and hope, for example….Ones that artificial intelligence will never understand.
—Scott Whitlock, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2023
Gödel held out his recursive functions as eminently computable, and Ritchie showed that loop programs were just the right tools for that job.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2020
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“Computable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/computable. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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