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GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

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  1. 999900000999 · · focus · HN ↗
    My favorite usage by FAR of LLMs is translating food menus.

    Even with handwritten Japanese Gemini has been flawless.

    Although I do wonder if something is not lost. I no longer stumble though my forgotten Hiragana…

    Back to the article, can our new LLM god encrypt something so well he himself could not decrypt it( without the key of course)

    1. lhoff · · focus · HN ↗
      Well I haven’t seen modern asymmetric encryption being broken by an LLM. Would be interesting if one should use a a couple million dollar worth of tokens an throw it against Ed25519 to see if those elliptic curves are actually save.
      1. 999900000999 · · focus · HN ↗
        Hmm, in theory with enough compute anything is possible. But if LLMs keep getting better at the same rate it’s very possible they’ll find an exploit or something.
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