Researcher: GPT-6 Astra cracked WWI ciphers via brute force, not insight
A guest says GPT-6 Astra decrypted several unsolved WWI ciphers but only by brute-forcing with the key, not by deriving it, feeding his view that RSI is near.
.@deredleritt3r explains why OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs have him convinced AI could be on the brink of RSI: "When I used GPT-6 Astra, I messed around with a couple of ciphers that were previously unresolved, from World War I, and I successfully had Astra decrypt a couple of them." "But every one of the results was the model having the key, and brute forcing the solution by searching through the entire space of possibilities. I have not been able to get Astra to come up with the key on its own based on some novel idea." "The math results recently achieved by OpenAI’s internal model have really updated me. I think Terence Tao said about the quasi-Riemann solution that it was a combination of three or four existing ideas but arranged in a very unusual way." "I’m guessing an internal model at OpenAI is probably still not able to achieve RSI. But it feels like we’re really not very far away. Once the models are able to do something, in 12 months or sooner, they’ll be really, really good at it. I think we’re on the brink."
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