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Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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What fucking experts! Wow! A thing that was cracked DURING WW2 can also be cracked in 2025? Waow! So impressive! So useful! Amazing!
Fuck off with this tripe. If the solution of how Enigma worked is available on the internet, an AI can eventually bumble it's way into stealing it, without understanding what it's doing, by copying those solutions. Potentially. They haven't done it yet. But in their mind palaces, it would be easy if they power up enough servers to run several full-scale MMOs.
I really think one of the biggest reasons manager types love AI so much is that it's easier to throw computation resources at problems, than it is to hire people, because that takes time.