Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

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Now, a pair of cryptanalysts say they’ve cracked two long-unsolved messages encoded by Enigma machines using LLMs built by OpenAI and Anthropic. Carter Leffen, a developer, simply told OpenAI’s newest model, Astra, to search a database of Enigma messages for an unbroken message and decode it. Weirerud notes that there are just seven unbroken Enigma messages remaining, along with one message where the plaintext is known but the code is still unbroken.

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