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(Read: “I don’t actually understand how ML works”)
It’s not AI. Stop calling it AI.
The term "artificial intelligence" has been in use since the 1950s and it encompasses a wide range of fields in computer science. Machine learning is most definitely included under that umbrella.
Why do you think an AI can't double check things and fix them when it notices problems? It's a fairly straightforward process.
The halting problem. Machines cannot, by logic, double check themselves.
The halting problem is an abstract mathematical issue, in actual real-world scenarios it's trivial to handle cases where you don't know how long the process will run. Just add a check to watch for the process running too long and break into some kind of handler when that happens.
I'm a professional programmer, I deal with this kind of thing all the time. I've literally written applications using LLMs that do this.