[Cryptography] Has quantum cryptanalysis actually achieved anything?

[Ray Dillinger]

On 2/20/25 17:47, Aram Perez via cryptography wrote:
> I'm not a mathematician (nor do I play one on TV ;-), but I believe 
> that technically many of the steps provide a wrong statements, see 
> below. I would have thought that AI would be smarter than that but my bad.


Always remember that "Language model" AI does its thinking by modeling 
the way people use language.

That doesn't have as much to do with mathematics (or reality in general) 
as optimists might hope.

You get plausible sounding answers that are on the level of someone who 
barely understood the question and didn't check any of their 
intermediate steps.

Stringing together a plausible-seeming sequence of words is not the only 
way an AI can think.  An AI can do mathematics by querying MATLAB or 
something that will get an accurate answer and use the Language Model 
only to provide an interface to more appropriate problem-solving tools.

But most current AI are nothing more than the Language Model itself, so 
unless you have very trivial problems, they fail mathematics hard.

Bear