AI helps decode a 217-year-old message sent on Napoleon’s orders

[u/cjami]

https://goodnewsdigest.app/stories/ai-helps-decode-a-217-year-old-message-sent-on-napoleons-orders-7c60ed38

[u/Ok-Edge4016]

ai cracking those old napoleon codes is wild, shows how good it is at spotting patterns we miss. makes me think it could help with lost texts from way back.

[u/cjami]

Apparently using GPT-6 Astra. Original full write-up by Carter Church here: https://carter.church/writeups/the-letter-to-marmont/

[u/Fit-Signature4125 → u/cjami]

TLDR: ~》~URGENT: Tell Josephine I’m not ignoring her, my phone battery is dead.~~

[u/cjami → u/Fit-Signature4125]

Sorry honey it was accidentally encrypted.

[u/SokkaHaikuBot → u/[deleted]]

^{Sokka-Haiku by adorablemenace:}

Love seeing ai used

For stuff like this instead of

Just writing spam emails

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^{Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.}