With due respect, you have not understood how snake oil is detected.

Yup. This was almost science. It’s just lacking measurements and repeatablity.

making it trivially easy to spy on strangers in public without their knowledge or consent.

Hang on. I don’t need Meta glasses to spy on strangers in public. I can creep perfectly fine in my mirrored sunglasses.

As does Bob. I’m not sure what the specific point you are trying to make here. Do you want longer before the twist is revealed? Because this conversation already let that cat out of the bag.

I would argue he humanity lasts much longer, only losing it after a lot of generational drift.

Only the more recent TV show. The original westworld film was more like Terminator.

I would pick blade runner as the classic bot / human confusion.

Different book, but try We are legion (we are Bob)

Does “It takes two” count as an EA game?

It’s an older code but it checks out

Is it as good as Google desktop was?

This is a 2005 desktop. I can’t even get it past the bootloader. Ideally I would run Linux on it headless, but i can’t even get to that stage.

My GPU failed on my old (vista) PC and can no longer boot. Should I throw it away?

In any system there has to be some source of truth to base the data on. Otherwise people can claim anything .

You can use a government issued certificate to generate your own age proofs without their involvement.

The verifier does not know what exactly you are proving, when you are proving it or to whom.

The service provided by the verifier is equivalent to a stamp on a piece of paper.

Zk certificates can be issued by multiple entities all attesting the validity the same piece of information. Governments, companies and your mate Dave could all add weight to a zk proof.

The zk part just hides the input data. A zk proof guarantees validity, not truth.

Zero Knowledge ID, multiple possible verifies, only binary questions answered.

Are you over 18 = True/False

No other personal information escapes.

The seed for the random number generator isn’t usually exposed to the user. Also the AI service providers regularly update the model and/or weights, producing different outputs.

If you are running your own LLM on your own hardware you can guarantee repeatablity, but that’s not what your average Joe does.

So far I have semi-competent voice transcription

Lucky you. When I use voice transcription my English gets automatically translated into Welsh.

Agreed. The word “patterns” is an important qualification. LLMs are great for one off tasks, but not as part of a repeatable process.