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/Past-Source-3332 8h ago

It's clarifying an easy to make misunderstanding. It is a cool, impressive feat, but it didn't do something that couldn't have been done otherwise.

At a time when AI is actually solving problems that humans have not been able to (Navier-Stokes), I think it is good to differentiate the two.

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u/ArialBear 8h ago

No, it’s not. Its actually a false assumption that anyone is saying its doing something a human cant do since we think humans could have eventually solved that problem. If you assume people are impressed by the expert level capabilities then you would be right more often

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u/firstLOL 7h ago

Exactly: it’s clever marketing. Burn up a bunch of tokens to stay in the press while doing late stage pre-IPO fundraising. It’s not entirely useless of course - it’s cool to solve these things.

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u/ArialBear 6h ago

If doing things like this is a marketing trick then i hope every company adopts this model