"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?
No, I will not un-block html-load (dot) com.
Glad the original blog post was linked in the comments here.
Did it search for existing research and documented attempts at the problem before starting on the solution?
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.