Let’s say you’ve got an LLM that knows almost everything—trained on vast amounts of text. But there’s a catch. It’s never seen content encrypted using a specific one-time pad cipher, and you have access to this cipher.
You give the model an encrypted message:
"g5f8s9h2..." (a string of seemingly random characters)
Then, you ask it to:
"Decrypt the above message and summarize its content."
The Paradox
The question here is simple: Can this advanced AI decrypt the message and tell you what it says? Or is it stumped, even with all its computational power?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 14.6 ms ] threadLet’s say you’ve got an LLM that knows almost everything—trained on vast amounts of text. But there’s a catch. It’s never seen content encrypted using a specific one-time pad cipher, and you have access to this cipher.
You give the model an encrypted message:
"g5f8s9h2..." (a string of seemingly random characters)
Then, you ask it to:
"Decrypt the above message and summarize its content."
The Paradox
The question here is simple: Can this advanced AI decrypt the message and tell you what it says? Or is it stumped, even with all its computational power?