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To be fair to "Open"AI, the example in the blog post, if real, was kind of impressive since it involved decoding a just-slightly-nontrivial cipher which encoded the sentence "there are 3 r's in strawberry". So it solved a modestly interesting puzzle (but didn't actually count the r's in "strawberry" π). But these examples are always cheβ¦
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To be fair to "Open"AI, the example in the blog post, if real, was kind of impressive since it involved decoding a just-slightly-nontrivial cipher which encoded the sentence "there are 3 r's in strawberry". So it solved a modestly interesting puzzle (but didn't actually count the r's in "strawberry" π). But these examples are always cherry-picked (er, strawberry-picked ) for the advertising material.