@thomasfuchs what do you mean by "computer"? A Turing machine? A Von Neumann device? Any physical system that performs computations?
It's pretty clear that a cat's brain is not literally a Dell XPS 13. But it sounds like is that you have a definition of "computer" that excludes brains.
It’s self-evident: 🤖 Computers (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff that no brain can. 🧠 Brains (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff no computer can.
You know what’s really interesting?
That brains never evolved to be really fast and precise calculating things—which is exactly the raison d’être for computers.
(It’s either not necessary for consciousness or maybe actively detrimental to it?)
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@MichelPatrice not the one in Bologna (I don’t think) but definitely Fedi Day Berlin at CBase and JDLL in May. I can look up links soon (I’m with family and on the road for the rest of the week) 😅
The #39C3 talk "Agentic ProbLLMs" was great and disturbing. I strongly recommend it to watch it later on media.ccc.de.Several exploits using agentic AIs (e.g. #Copilot, #Claude Code, #Jules, #Devin, …) were demonstrated, allowing to pwn your computer. In some cases without user interaction.The highlight was a proof-of-concept virus that attacks git that replicates whenever a developer uses "analyze code with #AI". 🤡 #hacking #exploit #agent #CCC
At the https://gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message.Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed.gpg has not fixed it yet.