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GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

400 points · 180 comments · nsoonhui

  1. grey-area · · focus · HN ↗
    Using an existing published key, which people hadn’t tried because the message was sent before the key was supposed to be used.

    This headline is misleading.

    1. mannyv · · focus · HN ↗
      Agents are doing the lazy work that people aren't.

      In NZ there's a famous story about gold miners who were mining one side of a river, and didn't go to the other side because it was too much work. One miner's dog swam over, so the dude went to get his dog and found a motherlode.

      After all, the whole LLM thing started because they started increasing the parameter counts, even though there was no particular reason an AI would get better with more parameters.

      1. topspin · · focus · HN ↗
        The goalpost in a on a trailer, cruising on the highway.
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