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

ortusdux

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."

hansonkd

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

cantaloupe

The original blog post of the person who orchestrated the attempt: https://carter.church/writeups/the-letter-to-marmont/

z3ratul163071

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

breakingcups

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

antesaj

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

spdustin

No, I will not un-block html-load (dot) com. Glad the original blog post was linked in the comments here.