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OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

738 points · 448 comments · sohkamyung

  1. saberience · · focus · HN ↗
    How many of these "news" articles are we going to get?

    This for me, isn't interesting, it required no skill, no imagination, in fact it seemed like it happened by dumb luck.

    So we have entered an age where an army of know-nothings direct models to old forgotten tasks so they can get 15 minutes of un-deserved attention?

    1. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
      > This for me, isn't interesting, it required no skill, no imagination, in fact it seemed like it happened by dumb luck.

      So like half of all useful human inventions are to you not interesting just because it happened by dumb luck?

      1. mossTechnician · · focus · HN ↗
        A person inventing something, even out of dumb luck, is interesting.

        A machine running a loop through an expensive LLM for an undisclosed amount of time, which cost an undisclosed amount of money, which was told to keep looping into a solution was found, for a problem that nobody was very concerned about... That just seems like PR, and it's not so interesting.

        1. IAmBroom · · focus · HN ↗
          To you.
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