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Posted by u1hcw9nx 10 hours ago

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher(www.vals.ai)
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jdjdjdjdjd 7 hours ago|
Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine.
TheSpacerr 2 hours ago||
how?
ghawkopen 1 hour ago|
because this already was in the data that model was trained on
Jun8 9 hours ago||
Next up: Kryptos part 4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos)
elahieh 8 hours ago||
Unfortunately, the totality of the evidence very much indicates that Sanborn went "buck wild" with the enciphering, he made mistake(s), or both. So this is very much in line with the Chaocipher challenge of 1990. Nice little earner for some people though.
razster 8 hours ago||
First thing that came to mind. I imagine this has cross their minds to.
layer8 8 hours ago||
The article mentions it.
chaostheory 5 hours ago||
The problem with Fable is the price for performance. It’s so expensive that I typically blow through my subscription usage of it within 1-2 days. With ChatGPT Astral, I can use it full blast for almost a week. Same with Opus.
m3kw9 5 hours ago||
So it solved a obscure puzzle that looks like a weak decryption
jdthedisciple 1 hour ago||
now on to the Zodiac ciphers?!
spawrks 5 hours ago||
Ok anyone else want to see Kryptos next? Am I the only one?
ckozlowski 5 hours ago||
"setec astronomy...No more secrets."
justonenote 4 hours ago||
Its all brute force. This was how the pyramids were built too. Verifiable goal and a lot of energy expended aiming toward it. It wasn't aliens then and its not super intelligence now.

All of these breakthroughs are in verifiable brute force domains, and some of them are probably wrong because of a typo in a lean specification or just a base level axiom being incomplete.

I think the better the way to think about LLMs is like they are new substances, like when we first discovered clay or bronze, but confined to the digital realm. Previously we were chipping away at stones trying to make to things as close to useful as possible, then we found a step change. LLMs are like clay but they have their limitations. Wake me up when they are proposing new, { conjecture: interesting|useful|new } and not as a side effect of trying to get to a goal.

yuvalkarmi 9 hours ago|
now THAT is cool!
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