Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof "shocking news"; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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Cade Metz / New York Times : Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption — A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.

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