GPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours

17 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by ortusdux
(tomshardware.com)

10 Comments

ortusdux

5 hours ago

Link to X thread: https://x.com/CarterWChurch/status/2105167567706816690?ref_s...

"What makes this impressive isn't actually the codebreaking, but that Astra completed the entire multi-modal workflow in ~6 hours from a single image and goal."

Isamu

3 hours ago

It’s an image of ink-on-paper cursive handwriting, with what looks like markings added during the original decryption to keep track of where they were in the process.

So image to text, then a brute force attack on a Napoleonic era cypher.

z3ratul163071

4 hours ago

amazing. can it also not butcher my medium size code base every time i give it a task?

spdustin

2 hours ago

No, I will not un-block html-load (dot) com.

Glad the original blog post was linked in the comments here.

breakingcups

3 hours ago

Wonder when Astra is going to definitively "solve" the Voynich Manuscript.

antesaj

3 hours ago

Did it search for existing research and documented attempts at the problem before starting on the solution?

hansonkd

4 hours ago

I mean is this good? How do we measure how "unsolvable" these codes are vs just unsolved because they are esoteric, uninteresting, and useless?

withinboredom

3 hours ago

Yeah -- if you want to do something better; set it on the Beale Ciphers.