AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance
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Summary
A clever AI chatbot function is enabling people to delude themselves they have excelled in an area where others, including the NSA with its quantum computer, have failed – cracking Kryptos, a coded sculpture behind CIA headquarters.
Artist Jim Sanborn, who created the sculpture and is the only person who knows the code, is increasingly being bombarded with answers as a result of the chatbot function, and is concerned that the flood of answers is unsustainable and that the intense interest lacks appreciation for the complexity of the project.
Sanborn has dropped clues over the years, such as providing the word BERLIN in 2010, CLOCK in 2014, and more recently, that the plaintext in positions 26 through 34 was NORTHEAST, and later that the four characters preceding that word spelled EAST, but the final segment of the code remains unsolved after 35 years.
Sanborn hopes the answer will remain a secret until after his death, as he has no intention of giving it away during his lifetime.
