The Ai thread

[Nycturne]

Yeah, i took it as some sort of mathematical work-around to extract private keys, the theory being that the Russians were still (in the movie universe) using symmetric keys (and we weren’t? but we were.)

Anyway, suspend disbelief.

RSA and it's ilk were under an export ban at the time (I remember actually reading about it as a teen learning about PGP). Looking it up, GOST R 34.11-94's public keys share more with elliptic curve public key cryptography, but the documentation on the older encryption is pretty poor in the English-speaking web. Janek also explicitly mentions the number-field sieve, which makes sense in the context of trying to break RSA, but much less so in ECC. So I think Greg's claim holds up, in context. Which is enough.

Behind the scenes confirms it was discussion with experts, discussing RSA and how one would need to break it completely that inspired the black box. And it wasn't until 1994 that Shor's paper demonstrated the same algorithm could attack both RSA and ECC. So sure, it's not perfect, but it is pretty damn good for something aimed at the average audience, it's digestible, but if you do pick it apart, it's not completely hand-wavy. I like it.

 

[Eric]

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

Have it your way?

www.theverge.com

Can't learn good customers service skills from a human? Let the robot teach you.

 

[Nycturne]

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

Have it your way?

www.theverge.com

Can't learn good customers service skills from a human? Let the robot teach you.

I think it's even worse... this is an Overseer in all but name. Because this will get used for those minimum wage jobs to determine who to cut.

Why aren't you wearing more pieces of flair?

 

[Cmaier]

I think it's even worse... this is an Overseer in all but name. Because this will get used for those minimum wage jobs to determine who to cut.

Why aren't you wearing more pieces of flair?

I worked at McDonald’s during one summer in high school. I worked the cash register and fry station when needed. Never flipped a burger.

One day I was working and I had been there for 8 hours and the assistant manager wouldn’t let me take lunch. When I finally got done with my shift, I drove over to Burger King, in uniform. I walked in and bought a sack of whopper jr’s, and drove back to the McDonalds. I stood just outside the entrance (it was a stand-alone restaurant inside a bigger building, in Woodbury Commons, a giant outlets place that had just opened, so the entrance was indoors and everyone working in McDonalds could see me - the entrance was a big wide opening, like a gate in the front of a store in the mall)

Anyway, I started asking every customer coming in if they wanted free Whopper Jr’s, and I handed all of them out.

Two things came of this.

First, the following Monday, the owner started to give me a stern talking to, but immediately shut up when I mentioned NY child labor laws. The assistant manager was fired.

Second, I became a legend in my high school, since everyone who worked there was in the same grade as me.

 

[Nycturne]

I worked at McDonald’s during one summer in high school. I worked the cash register and fry station when needed. Never flipped a burger.

Mine was an Arby's. Couldn't even work back line because you had to be 18 to work the deli slicer. Not sure if that's still true 30 years later. Absolutely there for a story of someone leveraging the law for good.

But when I see HR teams going in and finding small things to fire people over when drama shows up, things like this make such things even easier. "Oh, I didn't fire this gal because she reported sexual harassment, but because the AI said she said 'thank you' 10% less often than any other employee."

 

[dada_dave]

I think it's even worse... this is an Overseer in all but name. Because this will get used for those minimum wage jobs to determine who to cut.

Why aren't you wearing more pieces of flair?

I would imagine the idea is to eventually replace them with the AI.