Comment by piltdownman

7 days ago

It's incredible when outlined in the context of a known problem domain, and the estimated effort in legacy terms, how far we've come in such a short space of time.

If the introduction HP-65 was the first time an individual was capable of fully replicating the logical and cryptanalytic functionality of the WWII Turing-Welchman Bombe, then the roll-out of Agentic AI could be said to represent the first time an individual was capable of replicating the functionality and deliverables of the WRENs of Bletchley Park. Mindboggling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRENS

Even more impressive is the Astra-6 report recently. Given access to the Crypto Cellar Research archive of unbroken intercepts, the AI wrote its own custom Python and C++ software to simulate an Enigma machine and a mechanical Enigma Bombe.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

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Twiin  7 days ago

Opus did this as well, I had it working on the (now-solved) Enigma messages but I killed the run after a couple of days of CPU time. When the Astra-6 report came out I compared the method to what I had been running, and I had the right crib about 4 hours down the road in my queue and it would have been solved then. (Or, and there's a lesson to learn here, if I had made my solver a little more tolerant towards garbled letters, it would have solved it in the first couple of hours).