AI may have cracked a 370-year-old cipher in 44 minutes. The harder question is whether it discovered the answer, remembered it, or merely guessed well.
Anthropics AI Solves 373-Year-Old Cipher in 44 Minutes Vals AI used Claude Fable 5.1 to decode Cyphral Distich, but critics ...
According to @bcherny, Fable used Claude to solve the 370-year Cyphral Distich, revealing practical LLM cryptanalysis and research workflows, per Vals.ai.