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Carter Leffen
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Two days ago, GPT-6 Astra broke a yet unsolved German Army Enigma message from 1941. Amazingly Astra was able to autonomously: - Search historical archives - Compare uncertain letters - Find contextual clues - Build an Enigma simulator - Write cryptanalysis code - Run parallel experiments - Test competing keys - Recover the plaintext - Cross-check the results 1/n
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Carter Leffen
@carterleffen
I spent 99x more effort on building the website to describe the challenge and solution than any of my efforts on breaking the code. Astra also did all of the heavy lifting on building the site too! I just iterated with it over a few days. 3/n
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Carter Leffen
@carterleffen
thank you! I didn't expect after i entered the following that I would actually see it finish. /goal don't stop working until you solve the problem With Pro account it used 70% of my weekly, 650 million tokens.
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Carter Leffen
@carterleffen
all of the logs and everyone to reproduce is on the website to download. i also sought and received validation by an expert before posting.
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Carter Leffen
@carterleffen
great question. hard to say… i’m sure all of the data regarding the rosetta stone has been baked into nearly all frontier models so it would be difficult to attempt…
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Carter Leffen
@carterleffen
the problem was chosen because at that point it hadn’t been broken. Of course now that the code is broken a time traveler to 1941 would know about troop movements :-)
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Burak Yenigun
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emotional qualities of watching codex one-shot some rust code after thirty minutes of iteration
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Dragonhanger
@CamdonGames
Copied that prompt into ChatGPT attacked this, here are the results “Plate 4347 — THE GIANT GOES DOWN — proposed by Theodore Giesecke — Houston, Texas, Monday, April 7, 1919”
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Emperormarkus
@Emperormarkus78
This is a great post. It makes sense that we should use AI tools to have a go at these old messages. I think there is a lot we can do here more generally joining the dots on archived materials. Bletchley Park is struggling financially so good to keep people interested in this
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Trueman
@DadGamerOne
I bet it didn’t, I bet it stole or used historical research to figure out a code that everyone else didn’t deem important now the war was won !
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Niebieski Astronauta 🇵🇱
@Stasiu_Botowski
Fun fact: Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski broke the German Enigma cipher in late 1932. The symbolic date is December 31, 1932 - that was when Rejewski deciphered the first message encrypted using the military version of the Enigma.
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