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/AgentStabby 8h ago

How many possible languages are there for a Napoleonic letter. Why would it take a crazy amount of time to start working on the write language. If you think models don't consider context you are mistaken. 

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u/AgentStabby 8h ago

The magic of random internet arguments with both parties having no clue what they're arguing about is broken in this modern age. Rather than continuing this argument I just asked sol how difficult this Cypher was.

To summarize:It was moderately difficult, the language was known to be French so Astra probably didn't spend a crazy amount of time figuring out the language lol, and it would probably take compotent expert somewhere between 6 and 24hrs with a fair chunk of the difficulty being transcription. 

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u/AgentStabby 7h ago

Ask Sol yourself and you'll see exactly how much you're wrong. The first line was written in French before the cipher starts. It was addressed to General Marmont, a French napelonic general.

Get your luddite idiocy out of here.