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Just read an article from an #ai influencer musing on the Innovative power of AI.

Tasked with breaking the Enigma code, an AI system trained to recognise German using Grimm’s fairytales, utilizing 2,000 virtual servers, cracked a coded message in 13 minutes.

Let's pause for a second to let it sink.

And let's think for a second

Alan Turing β€œBombes” could decipher two messages every minute.

😱. Suddenly the AI result isn't all that impressive any more.
AI cuts out all the research, knowledge gain, and insight. With all the resources available today, it still performs worse than a solution from 70 years ago (to be precise 26 times).
And this is seen as an impressive innovation 🀑🀯

"Sources":
Influencer post https://mastodon.social/@Caramba1/114470245795906227
Guardian article
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/07/todays-ai-can-crack-second-world-war-enigma-code-in-short-order-experts-say