@cgtwts: they’re solving history now it’s so over.
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A viral claim states that GPT-6 Astra cracked a 217-year-old unsolved cipher belonging to one of Napoleon's generals, completing a full multi-modal workflow from a single image in about six hours.
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they’re solving history now
it’s so over. https://t.co/xm40sESRY5
Carter Church (@CarterWChurch): I used GPT-6 Astra to break an unsolved cipher to one of Napoleon’s generals that had gone unread for 217 years.
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.
1/6🧵
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