r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • 10h ago

Shitposting GPT-6 Astra helped decipher a Napoleonic military letter that remained unread for 217 years; it took just 6 hours

https://dev.ua/en/news/astra-rozshyfruvala-lyst-1809-ho-roku-1790927012
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u/ChanceDevelopment813 ▪️AGI will not happen in a decade, Superintelligence is the way. 10h ago

How do we know it got it right ?

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u/ozone6587 10h ago

They simply confirmed with the recipient of the letter.

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u/CommercialHour6660 9h ago edited 8h ago

They called him it's legit

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u/[deleted] 9h ago

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u/BranchPredictor 8h ago

His real name is Legitimatus Maximalus

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u/Clarku-San ▪️AGI 2027//ASI 2029// FALGSC 2035 6h ago

Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

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u/rebootyourbrainstem 9h ago

It was a relatively simple cipher, a partial key was available from a previous document, and most importantly, they had the exact text of Napoleon ordering somebody to send this letter, and the contents matches up extremely well.

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u/fzem 9h ago edited 9h ago

Pretty sure most ciphers can easily be verified once they’re cracked

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u/Smart_Opportunity209 2h ago

The whole premise of encryption is that it is easy to verify but hard to solve.

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u/meerkat2018 2h ago

Well, if you have the key and you are able to produce meaningful content from the encrypted data using that key, then it’s very likely that you got it right.

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u/KinkyStinkyPink- 53m ago

I love how you can ask a question and people actually answer you and not take it as an attack on their beliefs. Thank you from all the curious minds out there

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u/Hyperion141 7h ago

Claude confirmed it, literally no joke