It is cool. But how do we know that nobody solved that problem before and it was somewhere in the training data? some blog, or some book or whatever?

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altmanaltman 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Its a bit sus since there doesn't really seem to be much discourse on this either. Like okay, it solved the puzzle but the puzzle was just a key cipher with plain text? And how is this verified or even matter in terms of what it reveals? Seems more like a marketing fun post than anything susbtantial.

They published this on 31 aug and nobody in that community cared and no news covered how this 300+ years mystery was solved?

	▲	sidewndr46 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Conversely, the cipher could be so boring that no one in any academic circle bothered publishing on it.

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heaney-555 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is this going to be the cope every time this happens?

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aogaili 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Haha - I'm just seriously wondering, how can anyone tell at this point?

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razster 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Right, with the amount of data these models are trained on, somewhere someone may have solved it and it was in some obscure text/page no one looked at or care about. We'll probably never know.

	▲	ares623 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's like Google without Ad/SEO incentives. All it took was trillions of dollars of investment.