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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Post by jonas21 »

Retr0id wrote: post #2

> I told it to look online at some of Fable’s strongest feats, especially the math problems it has solved, and that something like this should be easy in comparison. Fascinating. I wonder if you could show "fake news" to a weaker model and get it to be more ambitious in its attempted solutions, even if it's not fundamentally any smarter.

Career path:

   software engineer -> prompt engineer -> positive affirmation engineer

Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Post by ReflectedImage »

flyinglizard wrote: post #13
redfloatplane wrote: post #3

A very neat problem and result. I often find myself swinging between "It's so over" and "We're so back" - some days I roll out of bed thinking I could have Claude solve some random unproven OEIS sequence before breakfast; other days, I wake up in a cold sweat worried about the fate of humanity and what the world might look like in a decade. I think it's that I don't have a very high p(doom) or p(utopia), and I don't…

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That's an artifact of it not using A-Z as it's alphabet. What you type gets translated before the AI sees it. The seventeen word the AI sees does only contain three 'e' s.

Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Post by mapontosevenths »

GaggiX wrote: post #16
flyinglizard wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Just tried on Astra low and it gave 4.

I tried too. It got it. Maybe more importantly, who cares?

For example, I'm a nerd. I'm bad at baseball. I lack that kind of intelligence, even though it's more common than the ability to program. That doesn't also imply that you can't trust my Python code.

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