"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."
It’s an image of ink-on-paper cursive handwriting, with what looks like markings added during the original decryption to keep track of where they were in the process.
So image to text, then a brute force attack on a Napoleonic era cypher.
The original blog post of the person who orchestrated the attempt:
https://carter.church/writeups/the-letter-to-marmont/
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."
https://xxcancel.com/CarterWChurch/status/210516756770681669...
It’s an image of ink-on-paper cursive handwriting, with what looks like markings added during the original decryption to keep track of where they were in the process.
So image to text, then a brute force attack on a Napoleonic era cypher.
That link just gave me cancer from simply looking at it.
At least cut everything from the ? onwards.
Wonder when Astra is going to definitively "solve" the Voynich Manuscript.
amazing. can it also not butcher my medium size code base every time i give it a task?
Did it search for existing research and documented attempts at the problem before starting on the solution?
No, I will not un-block html-load (dot) com.
Glad the original blog post was linked in the comments here.
I mean is this good? How do we measure how "unsolvable" these codes are vs just unsolved because they are esoteric, uninteresting, and useless?
Yeah -- if you want to do something better; set it on the Beale Ciphers.