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my new favorite thing to follow is Claude and ChatGPT cracking these unsolved historical mysteries. and they've been on a ridiculous run over the last 2 weeks: > a human + Claude Fable cracked a secret 1644 war plan sent to Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III. the letter described blocking Ottoman support for Transylvania, mobilizing Moldavia, and supplying 2,000 Cossacks: “I shall by every means prevent the Turk from giving him help… and give him two thousand Cossacks.” > the same project…
prinz@deredleritt3rSep 17
GPT-6 Astra deciphered a 1918 German radio transmission that, to my knowledge, has never been deciphered before. The message below translates to: "EIN ENGLISCHER KREUZER EINLIEG X SEWASTOPOL X S4STEN X EIN GESCHWADER DER X ALLIIERTEN FOLGT 26STEN X" or, in English: "AN ENGLISH CRUISER ARRIVED AT SEVASTOPOL ON THE ?4TH AN ALLIED SQUADRON FOLLOWS ON THE 26TH" Astra even double-checked its work by determining that an English cruiser, HMS Canterbury, reported its arrival in Sevastopol on November 24, 1918 and the arrival of an allied squadron on November 26, 1918. This message is one of the ~20 WWI German radio messages that appear as one of the entries in the https://t.co/H7yLaI1edV list of top 50 unsolved ciphers (https://t.co/Qu2gp90pmD). A minor, but really cool result!
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