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January 22, 2025 62 mins

Not only is OpenAI's new o3 model allegedly breaking records for how close an LLM can get to the mythical "human-like thinking" of AGI, but Sam Altman has some, uh, reflections for us as he marks two years since the official launch of ChatGPT. Emily and Alex kick off the new year unraveling these truly fantastical stories.

References:

OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub

From the blog of Sam Altman: Reflections

More about the ARC Prize

o3's environmental impact

The brain is a computer is a brain

Fresh AI Hell:

"Time to Edit" as a metric predicting the singularity (Contributed by Warai Otoko)

AI 'tasting' colors

An AI...faucet??

Seattle Public Schools calls ChatGPT a "transformative technology"

A GitHub pull request closed because change would have been unfriendly to "AI" chat interface

Cohere working with Palantir

Elsevier rewrites papers with "AI" without telling authors, editors

The UK: mainlining AI straight into their veins

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.

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