Wow, the coincidences mentioned in the article are quite shocking.
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The key to the cipher turned out to be “Elizabeth”, which was actually discovered by one of three different retired NSA cryptographers who vetted this guys work.
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When the suspect was elderly he drew a sketch very similar to the mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, also titled “Elizabeth”. The sketch reportedly has the word “Zodiac” hidden in it.
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The motel where she was murdered & mutilated was likely the Zodiac Motel.
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Let me guess. Some guy fed it into AI.
That’s the perfect case for it imo. Ingestion is best done by something efficient, like a scheduler. Use the tool properly and there’s nothing wrong with it. Build it ethically and legally and it’s a boon for mankind. Don’t blame “AI” for the abomination capitalists have created.
Yeah, nobody’s buying your ethical AI bullshit
Good because it’s a myth.
It’s not just AI, but there is a bunch of AI:
To attack the problem, Baber used artifical intelligence and generated a list of 71 million possible 13-letter names. Using known details of the Zodiac killer, based on witness descriptions, he cross-checked those names against military, marriage, census and other public records.
At the time, the Compton bungalow complex was called the Zodiac Motel, a fact Baber discovered by using AI to unearth a newspaper ad. He thinks it inspired the name the Bay Area killer called himself.
Baber used artifical intelligence and generated a list of 71 million possible 13-letter names
So now making a special-purpose rainbow table is AI now, too? Or was he too ignorant to know how to do that without resorting to AI?
a fact Baber discovered by using AI to unearth a newspaper ad
AI like Google?
Depends on whether the ad was “unearthed” or “hallucinated”.
Did the killer name himself? I thought that usually wasn’t the case.
He did
No way to know for sure but the article makes the theory sound somewhat persuasive.
If 3 separate NSA cryptographers agree it’s a feasible solution then I’m inclined to accept that. Especially since one of them independently discovered it meant the encryption key was “Elizabeth”.
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