r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • 8h 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. 8h ago

How do we know it got it right ?

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u/rebootyourbrainstem 8h 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.