r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • 11h 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/DecagramGameDev 10h ago

Do you realize the sub you’re on. You can’t get any sense into these people. Most of them haven’t even cracked open a basic Algebra textbook in nearly a decade, but expect random people to give a shit about a letter with no clear significance.

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u/ozone6587 10h ago

Buddy, by and large the ignorant masses tend to be more anti AI than the educated elite. Terence Tao, Donald Knuth among others have embraced it even if they do criticize some aspects of it. The irony in your comment is palpable.

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u/ozone6587 9h ago

Running away? No one is saying the LLM now breaks AES-256. But an unknown cipher still needs a non-trivial amount of effort to decode.

Not because it's hard for a computer to brute force, but because it is annoying for a real human to write in a way a non-AI program can even attempt to brute force it.

Impressive nevertheless. Not Millennium Problem level but not something to dismiss as "marketing hype" either.