Post #4098444

2022-09-24 15:59 UTC

[...] Alice and Bob happened upon a book on artificial intelligence, lying abandoned by the roadside. A good citizen, Alice said, “One of us must pick this book up and find a suitable waste receptacle.”- Applied Cryptography (1993), Bruce Schneier

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@varbin@infosec.exchange 2026-07-25 23:08

@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be @cR0w@infosec.exchange In case someone wants proof. Schneier quotes "J. Kilian, Use of Randomness in Algorithms and Protocols, MIT Press, 1990", though.

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@bieberium@infosec.exchange 2026-07-26 08:28

@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be Personally, and mainly because I did not enough think about this enough previously, I was very surprised by the mention of artificial intelligence in Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

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@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-07-26 07:13

@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be Looks like this is echo from this event :drgn_blush_giggle: : > The 1980s also saw a second wave of AI enthusiasm, focused on expert systems. Companies like Inference Corporation, Intellicorp, and Teknowledge promised to capture human expertise in rule-based systems that could make decisions as well as human experts. [snip] > The second AI winter arrived in the early 1990s. Again, funding collapsed. Again, researchers rebranded their work. Again, the fundamental promise of machines that could program themselves receded into the future. https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/ #AInt #LLM

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