General AI Crap

100% agree, what he posits is complete BS, but the idea of "communicating" via monitoring the heat in a CPU package is not impossible, but the physical setup would be VERY specific and would have had to be physically setup and defined between both parties before anything happened... and even then it would be STUPID slow.

And even if you removed the chassis and equipped two computers with IR temperature probes pointed directly at the CPU, I still doubt it would work, because the CPU would be used for encoding, decoding and sending the messages. Even to just send a message it would need to be processing information that is not part of the message while sending the message so it would just be a big mess.
 
And even if you removed the chassis and equipped two computers with IR temperature probes pointed directly at the CPU, I still doubt it would work, because the CPU would be used for encoding, decoding and sending the messages. Even to just send a message it would need to be processing information that is not part of the message while sending the message so it would just be a big mess.

100%.

For me its one of those weird "thought experiments" that is kind of fun as in its physically possible, but realistically its a fscking nightmare.
 
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