Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 weeks agoYes, but it’s significant because the prompt was to choose a number. I realize computers can’t really be random, but if we needed to just select a popular number…we can already do that!
sexy_peach@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Computers can be random with special hardware.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Care to elaborate?
sexy_peach@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
There are devices that measure radioactive decay for operations where truly random numbers are very important. Or something like that, I am not an expert, sorry.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Interesting. As I understand it, pure computing (not sensors recording external data) are incapable of generating truly random numbers. But I’m obviously not an expert either!
I’ve been using “Perfect Passwords” for years, which apparently generate nearly random passwords from server noise, but he admits it’s still not truly 100% random…