>That's potentially more impressive...
Serious question: why? Is it not just pointing it at its massive training corpus for a list of unsolved problems, and possibly even by degree of perceived difficulty? I'm trying to understand why finding the problem isn't a simple "search engine" style challenge, at which LLMs excel?
"Potentially more impressive than solving an unremarkable cipher" means just that. I'm not suggesting that it's groundbreaking new capability never before seen in LLMs.
So, it's no more remarkable than what LLMs do every day, but more remarkable than the solve claimed in the article?
So, none of this is noteworthy, but we're...noting it?
Not quibbling with you, personally. Quibbling more with the state of the hype.