alt Hacker NewsHow many of these "news" articles are we going to get?
This for me, isn't interesting, it required no skill, no imagination, in fact it seemed like it happened by dumb luck.
So we have entered an age where an army of know-nothings direct models to old forgotten tasks so they can get 15 minutes of un-deserved attention?
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First time I'm seeing this. I had heard about the WWI ciphertext crack[1] but not this one, are you confusing the two?
[1] https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-ra...
This wasn't possible just months ago and for many who haven't been following closely this is still newsworthy, probably not for long, though.
yes and no. AI is great for patter-maching and finding solution by "assonance".
I agree with you that these are not "trilling" discovery but they can be worth something anyway.
Like you, I do not like this news also because I think they will be used to just "push" the next two IPOs (Anthropic, OpenAI).
> in fact it seemed like it happened by dumb luck.
At best, dumb brute force computation power.
It is about as meaningful as news that a computer found the 10....0th digit of Pi.
> This for me, isn't interesting, it required no skill, no imagination, in fact it seemed like it happened by dumb luck.
So like half of all useful human inventions are to you not interesting just because it happened by dumb luck?
Just reflects how much of modern "work" is just dumb shit that we need to be freed from.
If human "skill" and "imagination" are your requirements for interesting, you're going to become permanently bored fairly soon I reckon.