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along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org ·
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'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

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'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

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along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org ·
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A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley
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Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.
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    The typical example is Shor’s algorithm

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm

    It allows to efficiently find the prime factors of an integer - a problem without a known polynomial algorithm on a classical computer.

    This would directly break RSA encryption, as it relies on factorisation being difficult.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_cryptosystem

    However, there are encryption algorithms that are considered safe even against a quantum computer.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

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      That’s fair, Shor’s algorithm would probably break a bunch of older encryption. It’s a little further out of reach, in terms of feasibility but who knows how fast it could speed up

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        So basically anything not using RSA is fine, which is probably everything these days.

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