OpenAI-ийн GPT-6 Astra систем 1918 онд Германы цэргийнхний ашиглаж байсан шифрлэгдсэн мэдээг тайлж, түүхэн баримттай холбоотой тайлагдашгүй зөрүүг илрүүлэв.
Дэлхийн нэгдүгээр дайны төгсгөл үед Германы цэргийн командлалаас илгээсэн уг нууц мэдээнд Английн байлдааны хөлөг онгоц Севастополь хотын чиглэлд хөдөлсөн тухай өгүүлжээ. Програм хангамж хөгжүүлэгч Принц нэртэй судлаач уг мэдээг тайлахын тулд ADFGVX шифрлэлтийн аргыг ашиглан хиймэл оюун ухааныг ажиллуулсан байна. Уг шифрлэлтийн түлхүүрээр “TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG” буюу цэрэг шилжүүлэн байршуулах гэсэн утгатай үгийг ашигласан нь тогтоогджээ.
Хиймэл оюун ухааны тайлсан мэдээнд Английн хөлөг онгоц Севастопольд хүрэлцэн ирсэн бөгөөд Холбоотны эскадриль 26-ны өдөр араас нь ирэх тухай тэмдэглэжээ. H.M.S. Canterbury хөлгийн бүртгэлийн дэвтэр дэх түүхэн баримтаар уг хөлөг 1918 оны арваннэгдүгээр сарын 24-нд Севастопольд хүрсэн нь тогтоогдсон бол Холбоотны эскадриль арваннэгдүгээр сарын 26-нд ирсэн байна. Энэ нь хиймэл оюун ухааны гаргаж ирсэн мэдээлэл түүхэн үйл явдалтай тохирч байгааг харуулж байна.
Гэвч судалгааны явцад тайлагдашгүй он цагийн зөрүү илэрчээ. Хиймэл оюун ухааны шинжилгээгээр уг шифрлэлтийн түлхүүрийг 1918 оны арванхоёрдугаар сарын 9-нд анх ашигласан гэж гарсан боловч тухайн мэдээг 1918 оны арваннэгдүгээр сарын 27-нд илгээсэн байна. Мөн орчуулгад гарч ирсэн тодорхойгүй тэмдэглэгээний учир шалтгаан нь одоогоор тодорхойгүй хэвээр байна.
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A coded German message from 1918, warning of an English cruiser bound for Sevastopol, has been decrypted after 108 years. The work is credited to OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. Along the way, the model also surfaced a date discrepancy that nobody has been able to explain.
Near the end of the First World War, German military officials sent a cryptic transmission to their High Command. It reported that an English cruiser was heading for Sevastopol and that an Allied squadron would soon arrive and wait to strike near the Crimean Peninsula. The cipher stayed infamously unsolved until a software developer named Prinz put AI on the job.
OpenAI has called GPT-6 Astra an “alien mind,” pointing to an intelligence that feels more humanlike. It can handle complex tasks and has even beaten the video game Portal in just 24 hours, mapping the game’s 3D spaces and working out its puzzles. Cracking an old military cipher is a very different kind of puzzle, but it is the one that now has people talking.
A Grid Of Letters, A Garbled Result
The method behind the message is called ADFGVX, used by the Germans during World War I. The six letters of its name run along the top and down the side of a grid of six rows of six characters. The grid starts with a keyword, rearranged so its letters sit in alphabetical order, then continues through the alphabet and the digits 0 to 9.
According to Popular Mechanics, encrypting a letter is “shockingly easy”: you note where it sits on the grid, and that position gives its code. A letter found four down in row F and three across in column D, for instance, becomes AD. The finished text looks deliberately garbled.
Astra was handed the keyword the Germans used, TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG, meaning troop redeployment. That is a bit odd for a message about a warship, which the article takes as a reminder that cipher keys were picked for convenience rather than relevance.
What The Message Actually Said?
Once unlocked, the plaintext read, in German, that an English cruiser had arrived at Sevastopol and that an Allied squadron would follow on the 26th. The message was probably meant for Naval Command or an officer of high rank, such as an admiral.
The content lines up with the historical record. As reported by the original log of H.M.S. Canterbury, the ship was heading to Sevastopol from Constantinople. Checking itself against that log, the AI found the Canterbury had reached Sevastopol on November 24, 1918, and that an Allied squadron arrived on November 26.
A Date That Doesn’t Add Up
Here is where it gets strange. Astra worked out that the key was first put into use on December 9, 1918, yet the message itself went out on November 27, 1918. Why that is so remains unknown. Note that the Allied squadron had already arrived a day before Germany sent its warning.
Then there is the question mark sitting in front of “4th” in the translated text. Nobody knows what it means. It could simply be a typo, which, as the article dryly notes, apparently still happened even in top secret military operations.
For his part, Prinz has been modest. A spokesperson said in a statement on the developer’s website that they were not aware of this message ever being decoded before, calling it a minor but “really cool” result and an illustration of what the model can do.
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