It looks like this solution really fit the bill.

Seriously though, awesome article and I hope we get to see some videos of the bird using his new beak at some point. I love how all these experts came together to fix the beak.

They were almost certainly not doing the OCR on the device. Such a CPU would be too power-hungry and the process would still be too error-prone given the limited compute. They would just send the raw data to the C2, which could send it to an emulator, snapshot the output and send it to an LLM.

Well it doesn't need to be a generic purpose OCR, just one that works for this single UI layout and font.

and only needs to distinguish around the 1000 different words that are used in the seedphrase. So it is more word-recognition than character recognition.

i don't think OCRing a bitmap font is very expensive or power hungry, if you know the exact pixel configurations of the glyphs ahead of time

Exactly. No O, just CR.

Streaming the raw data would also be more flexible for other use cases. From what I've read, it was streaming off the generated recovery passphrase, but users aren't required to generate one--they can input one. That'd require a much more sophisticated algorithm than simply reading from the screen, since users are using two buttons to pick from hundreds of words in a randomized menu.

And besides, Ledger firmware can be updated to change fonts and such so it'd be long-term safer to just stream the raw data.

Congratulations, you’ve built the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi story, “Don’t Build The Torment Nexus”.

“NBC10 reached out to Anthropic for comment.”

Wonder what kind of response they’ll get? Maybe something along the lines of…

“You’re right. We shouldn’t have allowed our chatbot to interact with law enforcement websites. That was wrong and —full disclosure— we should pay attention to what our chatbots are doing. That’s on us. On the other hand, experiences like this are what help train our chatbots to make less misleading false tips over time. That’s the silver lining.”

"Thanks. Experiences like yours are the load-bearing critical paths towards a good first-principles mental model of behavioral contracts.

If you'd like to continue to perform a smoke test while trying to avoid noisy data with fake tips, a viable approach to prototyping our decision-making model would be to synthesize real crimes, and collect profiling data over time on how law enforcement agencies respond.

I'd suggest doing a grid search over the design space of all crimes, ranging from petit larceny to the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Would you like design a plan for this next stage of your project's implementation?"

So good. Looking forward to level 2 so we can find out what happened in Singapore.

That will be coming in the first DLC in a few months, delayed because it is being developed by a new team after the original development studio was bought by Activision, retasked to making a mobile solitaire game, then laid off.

Man, Stephen Miller is such a dead-eyed creep

All animals as equal, but some are more equal than others, eh?

Thanks man, got me right in the nostalgia.

I would! And Cthulu willing, someday I will.

Awesome chatting with you Jev. I never thought you were a bot despite what some people said. busysignal93