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AI, a field that’s almost as old as computer science?


cryptography, a field that's so old that evidence of its start is lost to time, but at least 3900 years.


As a cryptographer, I can confidently tell you that cryptography the science only became a thing in the early 80s. The caesar cipher is irrelevant to modern day crypto.




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