The question of how useful AI is or isn’t has been raging for some time, but there is no denying that it can help look at the sort of data that would take a human hours or even days in just minutes. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s used in medical research or even for decoding ciphers that have stood uncracked for years. But sometimes hype gets ahead of reality.
An AI engineer claimed to have deciphered a 217 year old letter from Napoleon to one of his generals using Open AI’s GPT-6 Astra to crack its code. However, some sceptics noted that the letter had already been decoded years ago and was available to read for anyone curious.
