State Watch Pornhub to block access in Florida amid lawsuit over states age verification lawby Ty Russell12/19/24 01:36 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) Pornhub says it will block access to its website in Florida as an adult entertainment advocacy group sues over the states new law requiring age verification.HB-3, an act relating to online protections for minors, will go into effect in the Sunshine State on New Years Day, requiring adult websites to prevent children from accessing them.Mike Stabile, a public policy director with Free Speech Coalition, a group that advocates for the adult entertainment industry, says he is concerned about the steps that will be used to verify someones age.When youre uploading an ID or when youre doing this type of verification, nothing is ever secure, Stabile said.Free Speech Coalition is the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent the law form taking effect over privacy and free speech concerns.You are asking people who are legal adults to risk their privacy and risk possible surveillance to access the internet, Stabile said.Since 2022, 19 states have passed laws requiring age verification to access adult websites.Ian Corby, the director of global group Age Verification Providers Association, pushed back, saying personal information will be protected.The Florida law includes, explicitly, a requirement for anonymous age verification done by a third-party. Our entire industry was created to prove your age online and not have to disclose your identity, Corby said.Its a measure that was passed with overwhelmingly bipartisan support.All we are trying to do is to make the same laws apply in the online world as applied in the real world, Corby said.Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is listed as the defendant in the case.As a mother, and Floridas Attorney General, I will fight aggressively in court to ensure the ability to protect Florida children, Moody said.Aylo, Pornhubs parent company, released a statement after vowing to block access to users statewide as a form of protest that read in part:First, to be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification of users for years, but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve user safety and privacy, and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults.Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide, including Florida, have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous. Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy. Moreover, as experience has demonstrated, unless properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods of evading these laws.Read the full lawsuit below

The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in ChinaTheres a mundane reason for the late-term chaos, and its called a conflict of interest.by David Dayen December 20, 202412:00 PMRSSPrintIn a sense, Donald Trump is picking up where he left off. Most of us remember the last official act of his presidency as the Capitol Riot, but just before that, just before Christmas 2020, he inserted himself late into a government funding fight that he had been previously disinterested in. Congress had agreed to a bipartisan year-end omnibus spending bill that included the first COVID relief measures in nine months. The bills were already passed, until Trump decided that some of the spending sounded funny, and individuals should get $2,000 checks instead of the $600 on offer. He refused to sign the omnibus without them.Within hours, Democrats wrote an expanded checks bill and passed it through the House, but Mitch McConnell refused to let it advance, and Trump grudgingly signed the omnibus anyway, climbing all the way down. The $2,000 checks became an issue in two special elections in Georgia that Republicans lost. The road to the Biden agenda went through Trumps anger-fueled, failed gambit to renegotiate a congressional deal after it was complete.Almost four years to the day, were back here again. But this time, Trump is a side player in the show. He and his transition team reportedly had no problem with the 2024 version of a year-end spending bill until this week. Then Elon Musk starting posting into a frenzy about how a perfectly normal bipartisan agreement represented a total betrayal, lying about the contents in the process. Trump had to be roused to back up his co-president, getting House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to construct a partisan solution while inserting an eleventh-hour, two-year suspension of the debt limit to prevent the Republican trifecta from having to deal with that nuisance in the next Congress.The remaining gasps of the Tea Party right, who see the debt limit only as an opportunity to force spending cuts, refused to go along with that piece, with 38 of them opposing the Johnson bill on the floor yesterday. Democrats werent about to vote for a bill they had no say in (if the offer was to eliminate the debt limit for all time, they should go for it, but this is not that), and it failed. House Republicans are vowing to try again today, but they will likely need a two-thirds vote on anything today (its procedurally complicated; suffice to say that they cant wait for the Rules Committee to report out a rule, forcing a vote under suspension of those rules). That means any bill will need Democratic votes, and nothing suggests that there are any negotiations with Democrats afoot. So the government will shut down at midnight.That brings us back to the initial reason for the blowup: Elons endless scroll. Which appears to be tied to none of the inaccurate reasons he offered on X, but an old standby for billionaires: personal financial and business incentives. The original bill would have made it harder for Musk to build Tesla factories in Shanghai.The word for this is oligarchy, and oligarchs dont think about the country first.This is the first scandal of the second Trump term, and take a long look, because its going to look like all the other scandals: a conflict of interest among his impossibly wealthy advisers and aides (or from Trump himself) seeps over into policy.The measure at issue is known as the outbound investment provision. We have heard for years about the problem of manufacturing businesses shipping jobs overseas to China, with its low worker wages and low environmental standards. China typically forces businesses wanting to locate factories in its country to transfer their technology and intellectual property to Chinese firms, which can then use that to undercut competitors in global markets, with state support.Congress has been working itself into a lather about China for years now, and they finally came up with a way to deal with this issue. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bob Casey (D-PA) have the flagship bill, which would either prohibit U.S. companies from investing in sensitive technologies in China, including semiconductors and artificial intelligence, or set up a broad notification regime around it.The bill would add some reporting requirements and enhanced reviews as well; in general, it expands restrictions that the Treasury Department has already put forward in regulatory rules. Codifying those rules into statute means that they cannot be changed by successive administrations.Cornyn-Casey passed the Senate last year, and after about a year of legislative wrangling, a final outbound investment package made it into the year-end bill. Were taking a necessary step to safeguard American innovation against bad actors and ensure our lasting dominance on the world stage, Cornyn said in a statement.Funny story: Elon Musks car company has a significant amount of, well, outbound investment. A Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai opened in 2019; maybe a quarter of the companys revenue comes from China. Musk has endorsed building a second Tesla factory in China, where his grip on the electric-vehicle market has completely loosened amid domestic competition. He is working with the Chinese government to bring Full Self-Driving technology to China, in other words, importing a technology that may be seen as sensitive. Musk has battery and solar panel factories that are not yet in China, but he may want them there in the future.You can argue about whether the U.S. should be restricting investment in China. But its incontrovertible that a billionaire who has a bunch of investments in China and wants to make more all of a sudden disrupted a normal congressional process that was going to restrict that investment with a bunch of lies from his media platform. And lo and behold, when the new funding bill emerged, the outbound investment feature was dropped. In fact, all traces of provisions related to China were removed from the bill.Donald Trump preens as someone determined to get tough on China. But hes empowered someone with serious business entanglements in China to seemingly serve as a barrier to any policies related to China over the next four years.The current White House resident (remember him) picked up on this. In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that Republicans are breaking their word to support a bipartisan agreement that would lower prescription drug costs and make it harder to offshore jobs to China. The prescription drug reference has to do with a major reform of pharmacy benefit managers, which was also taken out of the new bill.So Donald Trump, alleged leader of the realignment of populist Republicans, scuttled a spending bill primarily to shield the richest man in the worlds investments in China and the profits of UnitedHealth Group, owners of the second-largest pharmacy benefit manager.This is going to be a constant theme of the next four years. Personal business interests are going to constantly take precedence over governance in the Trump/Musk White House. The word for this is oligarchy, and oligarchs dont think about the country first. Millions of federal employees, including service members, wont see paychecks over Christmas, national parks will be shut down, food inspections and countless other government functions will stop because a Elon Musk doesnt want anyone poking around his business in China.Happy New Year.Back to Search ResultsDavid DayenDavid Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.Read more by David DayenDecember 20, 202412:00 PMUnlike many news organizations, the Prospect has remained staunchly committed to keeping our journalism free and accessible to all. We believe that independent journalism is crucial for a functioning democracybut quality reporting comes at a cost.This year, were aiming to raise $75,000 to continue delivering the hard-hitting investigative journalism youve come to expect from us. 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Pictured: Terminator: Resistance Image: Reef Entertainment (via Steam)The Switch is home to all sorts of franchises but one series Nintendo fans haven't got their hands on this generation is Terminator.It seems this could all be set to change with the discovery a game called Terminator 2D: No Fate has been rated by the Australian Classification Board for the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms.Image: Australian Classification BoardAs you can see above, the title received an 'M' for 'mature' rating earlier this week on 19th December 2024 and will contain violence and coarse language.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube789kWatch on YouTube It will be published and developed by Reef Entertainment - a UK-based developer known for the 2019 first-person shooter Terminator: Resistance. When we find out more, we'll be sure to let you know.

Originally known as the George Robert White Health Unit Number 2, this Colonial Revival style building is located on North Margin Street in the North End of Boston, and is significant as an early health center providing health and education services for some of Bostons most underserved residents. The building was constructed in 1923 as one of the neighborhood-based health centers built in Boston in the 1920s and early 1930s from funding by the George Robert White charitable trust. George Robert White (1847-1922), a longtime resident of Boston, worked in the office of the Potter Drug and Chemical Company as a boy, eventually becoming president and an owner of the corporation. He was an investor in real estate and reportedly was known for many years as the largest individual taxpayer in Boston. Upon his death, his will specified that his bequest to the city, about $5 million in 1922 (approximately $93 Million valued today), would be held in a permanent charitable fund to be used for creating public utility and beauty and for the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of Boston. The North End Health Unit was the second built (the first was in the West End), and designed in the Colonial Revival style from plans by Coolidge and Shattuck, later known as Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott. Since the 1970s, the building was occupied by the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal organization, until 2020, when the building was renovated and converted into housing with 23 units for elderly residents.

Gold and cryptocurrency mining present sustainability quandariesgettyThe election of President Trump has caused a sudden surge in cryptocurrency stocks given his willingness to experiment with alternate monetary policy, including the gold standard. Cryptocurrency is often conflated with exchange or fiat currencies like the dollar but in fact it has more in common with reserve currency like gold. Cryptocurrencies are limited by energy and processing power of computational systems just as gold is limited by physical capacity to mine and refine the material. There are thus some key similarities but also fundamental differences between having gold versus a currency like Bitcoin as a reserve standard. Currently the only country which is making Bitcoin as a legal-tender currency exchange medium is El Salvador. However, the International Monetary Fund has recently ordained some erosion of Bitcoin friendly laws in the country as a precondition for a $1.4 billion loan.Amidst all the ambition and anxiety over cryptocurrency in the Age of Trump, it may be worth reviewing key features of the gold standard from a sustainability perspective. Since mining bitcoins requires enormous amounts of energy while mining gold is highly pollution intensive one may wonder how there could be any positive outcome of these currencies. However, there are some key features of how these currencies limit the potential for resource consumption that should be considered.The rise of the gold standard can be traced back to the work of a scientist of no less eminence than Sir Isaac Newton, who also had the distinction of serving as the Master of the Royal Mint and was also fascinated by the alchemists desire to turn lead into gold. The elemental quality of gold as a rare and durable primary resource may have played some role in Newtons championing of the gold standard, particularly in comparison to its more reactive competing metal silver. The popularity of silver as a currency was largely due to the abundant stocks of the metal that were discovered in South America by the Spaniards, particularly in the mines of Potosi (in present-day Bolivia) which continues to be a region of ecologically questionable mineral extraction.Celebrated chronicler of the Klondike gold rush, Jack London, conceded in his back-of-the-envelope cost benefit analysis that the miners had probably invested over $220 million dollars to build infrastructure and sustain themselves in order to dig up around $22 million of gold. Yet to him, this calculation at the turn of the twentieth century was still weighted in favor of the yellow metals worth. He noted still that this monumental effort was still of inestimable benefit to the Yukon country, because natural obstacles will be cleared away or surmounted, primitive methods abandoned, and hardship of toil and travel reduced to the smallest possible minimum.Gold was almost universally valued, but there were some rare exceptions to the rule. In highly resource scarce communities, such as the desert tribes of the Sahara, the mineral commodity of choice was not an inert metal like gold but a compound formed by one of the most reactive metals in the periodic table sodium. Peter Bernstein describes the comparison between gold and salt in the eyes of the Saharan tribesmen: What must those poor diggers have thought of the funny people from the North country who swapped inestimable salt for stuff whose only role was to give men pride and pleasure by letting them see its luster.MORE FOR YOUFollowing Newtons earlier interest in gold, there was a period of uncertainty worldwide until huge reserves of gold were discovered in Southern Africa towards the end of the nineteenth century. The United States instituted the gold standard during a similar period of gold obsession. From 1834 onwards, gold was considered alongside silver as a standard reserve metal in monetary policy with a fixed price of gold set at $20.67 per ounce which remained in force until 1933. During this period, there was a global resurgence in the primacy of gold, particularly towards the end of the nineteenth century due to gold rushes worldwide. These rushes fueled phenomenal growth in various industrial sectors and paved the way for many other sectors of the economy to develop.The arguments against the gold standard have been predicated on how it limits the range of policy tools dealing with extenuating circumstances, such as the needs of a wartime economy. Following World War II, the Bretton Woods agreement, which created the World Bank and related financial institutions, recognized the salience of gold by keeping a reserve currency system, albeit with a variable price of gold. Following the Vietnam War, President Nixon withdrew from the international gold exchange standard completely. The US dollar itself became trustworthy enough in the eyes of the international community for it to be liberated from the shackles of gold. However, these shackles are precisely what many current proponents of the gold standard consider so compelling.The gold standard has the potential to instill discipline in monetary policy and can prevent governments from wantonly printing money and causing inflation. The standard can also prevent governments from overspending and creating huge deficits hence its current popularity with many in the Tea Party and MAGA movements in the United States. From an ecological perspective, the gold standard has the attraction of linking economic growth to natural resource constraints. However, the environmental impact of mining gold is so intense that any support for resurrecting the gold standard is summarily dismissed by many activists. For example, each ounce of gold produces 30 tons of waste, and the US EPA estimates the cost of cleanup for existing metal mines to be around $54 billion. The main argument for gold mining relates to the estimated 15 to 20 million livelihoods of gold miners and the major tax revenues it brings to many impoverished countries where it is mined.Given the durability of gold and its ease of recycling, the gold standard can in principle be maintained without having to mine more gold. Furthermore, if gold is being used as a reserve in and of itself, the main issue of consequence is property rights over the gold. If there were international consensus on the global gold reserves still in the ground, then trade and ownership of such reserves could also be handled through an international treaty system that regulates ownership of gold reserves, rather than through physical extraction of the metal. For example, if the worlds total gold deposits could be centrally certified and shares issued for buying these reserves, the same purpose could be served as stockpiling gold in a vault. In other words, a nations gold reserves could remain stored in their natural underground state, rather than being mined, purified, and deposited in a Fort Knox-like vault.Some discounting factor could be added to account for the accessibility of certain deposits versus others and countries which have gold on their land could get preferred purchase rights to the shares similar to how company founders or employees have preferred stock options. While this would be environmentally preferable to the present system of mining and storage, ecological economists would be right to ask: why not simply anchor currency to some other metric of planetary carrying capacity which could be considered in the same way? Perhaps a leave it underground approach to gold could be a first step on the road to considering more ecologically benign means of storing and measuring wealth.The gold standard has a checkered history in terms of its overall efficacy in economic development but there is little doubt that we need to instill some discipline within our financial institutions. Historically, gold mining and the gold standard have contributed to a great deal of ecological devastation. However, they have also contributed to the great enterprise and economic growth of the modern era. The gold standard unwittingly acknowledged the connection between monetary power and natural resource reserves, which constitute the core of many contemporary environmental ideologies. While the earlier proponents of the standard did not envisage this connection, the discipline they sought was the result of the natural limits of gold extraction and the underlying finite gold reserves.Current conversations about resurrecting the gold standard or indeed linking even cryptocurrency to gold should focus on this underlying presumption of the standard. Indeed, such an approach may help to also bridge the perceived tension between environmentalists and conservative politicians and economists. The take-home message remains that the salience of a gold standard for financial discipline is due not only to the nature of gold itself but is a product of the fact that gold is a relatively scarce natural resource with the persistent allure of durability. Revisiting a hybrid form of the gold standard paradigm could provide a potential solution to dealing with the challenge of excessive public and private sector consumption within a capitalist framework.

How to solve today's Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesLooking for Fridays Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here:We have just this weekend before Christmas and then one final weekend of December and 2024 before its a brand new year, with new resolutions to slowly give up on. Is that too cynical for a Saturday? Maybe Im just jaded. I hope everyone is off to a great festive start this winter break!In any case, we have a Wordle to solve!How To Solve Todays WordleThe Hint: Individual grass.The Clue: This Wordle ends with a vowel.Okay, spoilers below!...The Answer:Today's WordleCredit: Erik KainWordle AnalysisEvery day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here. Play Puzzles & Games on ForbesI screwed the pooch on this one, though it all ended up okay. My opening guess, SPIRE, wasnt great but it also wasnt terrible. I only had one green box and I decided to just leave it in place for my second guess. Then I made a terrible mistake and re-used the R that came up grey in the first word. GRATE only slashed the number of potential solutions down to 17, and FLAKE only carved that number down to 5. Luckily, I guessed correctly with my fourth and final guess: BLADE for the win!Competitive Wordle ScoreI get 0 points for guessing in four and 0 points for tying the Bot. All zeroes everywhere. Zero the hero. That reminds me of a song:How To Play Competitive WordleGuessing in 1 is worth 3 points; guessing in 2 is worth 2 points; guessing in 3 is worth 1 point; guessing in 4 is worth 0 points; guessing in 5 is -1 points; guessing in 6 is -2 points and missing the Wordle is -3 points.If you beat your opponent you get 1 point. If you tie, you get 0 points. And if you lose to your opponent, you get -1 point. Add it up to get your score. Keep a daily running score or just play for a new score each day.Fridays are 2XP, meaning you double your pointspositive or negative.You can keep a running tally or just play day-by-day. Enjoy!Todays Wordle EtymologyThe word blade comes from Old English "bld", meaning "a leaf of a plant" or "a cutting edge of a weapon or tool." This term is rooted in Proto-Germanic "blad" (leaf or flat surface) and is related to Old Saxon blad, Old Norse bla, and Gothic blada.The original sense likely referred to something flat and thin, like a leaf, and later extended to the cutting edges of knives, swords, and other tools.Let me know how you fared with your Wordle today on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog where I write about games, TV shows and movies when Im not writing puzzle guides. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.

NetflixTable of ContentsTable of ContentsDetroiters (2017-2018)Mindhunter (2017-2019)Receiver (2024)The weekend before Christmas can come with stress for those who celebrate, but whether you do or not, you might find yourself looking for a great way to not think about the holidays. Netflix has hundreds of ways for you to avoid that particular topic, and weve picked three of its most underrated shows for you to watch.From hilarious comedies to searing, serious dramas, this list has a little something for everyone. No matter what youre into, you should hopefully find something that has the right vibe with our choices below. And we promise, theres not a snowmen or reindeer in any of them.Recommended VideosWe also have guides to the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max,andthe best movies on Disney+.RelatedDetroiters - Brand New Comedy | Comedy CentralBefore I Think You Should Leave, there wasDetroiters, a short-lived gonzo comedy series that is beloved by comedy nerds everywhere, and rightly so. The series stars Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson as two up-and-coming ad men who are working to build a mini-empire in the Motor City.The series is really about their friendship, but it also sees them get into a number of absurd situations. Anyone familiar with Robinsons sense of humor probably wont be surprised to discover thatDetroitersis rowdy, hilarious, and over the top.You can watchDetroiterson Netflix.MINDHUNTER | Trailer 2 | NetflixOne of the great two-season shows in the history of Netflix, Mindhunter was gone far too soon. The series follows a few FBI agents who begin interviewing serial killers with the goal of understanding what motivates them to commit the crimes theyre imprisoned for. If you like David Fincher movies, then you should like this show as the auteur is the main creative lead behind it.Featuring brilliant central performances from Jonathan Groff and The Iron Claws Holt McCallany, the 19702/80s-set series is a brilliant reflection of our present-day obsession with serial killers. The show gets even more riveting in its second season when our agents head to Atlanta in the hopes of finding a real-life serial killer who murdered dozens of children there in the 1970s.You can watch Mindhunter on Netflix.Receiver | Official Trailer | NetflixAlthough Netflix couldnt quite make the second season of its showQuarterbackhappen,Receiverproved to be just as interesting. This documentary series follows some of the best receivers in football, including Davante Adams, Justin Jefferson, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel, and Amon-Ra St. Brown, as they live through the 2023 season.For each of these players, the season has a different trajectory, but even knowing how things ended, youll still find yourself riveted by some of the most charismatic people playing football today, and the ways they describe their own talents.You can watch Receiver on Netflix.Editors Recommendations

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OpenAI announced a breakthrough achievement for its new o3 AI modelRokas Tenys / AlamyOpenAIs new o3 artificial intelligence model has achieved a breakthrough high score on a prestigious AI reasoning test called the ARC Challenge, inspiring some AI fans to speculate that o3 has achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI). But even as ARC Challenge organisers described o3s achievement as a major milestone, they also cautioned that it has not won the competitions grand prize and it is only one step on the path towards AGI, a term for hypothetical future AI with human-like intelligence.The o3 model is the latest in a line of AI releases that follow on from the large language models powering ChatGPT. This is a surprising and important step-function increase in AI capabilities, showing novel task adaptation ability never seen before in the GPT-family models, said Franois Chollet, an engineer at Google and the main creator of the ARC Challenge, in a blog post. AdvertisementWhat did OpenAIs o3 model actually do?Chollet designed the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) Challenge in 2019 to test how well AIs can find correct patterns linking pairs of coloured grids. Such visual puzzles are intended to make AIs demonstrate a form of general intelligence with basic reasoning capabilities. But throwing enough computing power at the puzzles could let even a non-reasoning program simply solve them through brute force. To prevent this, the competition also requires official score submissions to meet certain limits on computing power.OpenAIs newly announced o3 model which is scheduled for release in early 2025 achieved its official breakthrough score of 75.7 per cent on the ARC Challenges semi-private test, which is used for ranking competitors on a public leaderboard. The computing cost of its achievement was approximately $20 for each visual puzzle task, meeting the competitions limit of less than $10,000 total. However, the harder private test that is used to determine grand prize winners has an even more stringent computing power limit, equivalent to spending just 10 cents on each task, which OpenAI did not meet.The o3 model also achieved an unofficial score of 87.5 per cent by applying approximately 172 times more computing power than it did on the official score. For comparison, the typical human score is 84 per cent, and an 85 per cent score is enough to win the ARC Challenges $600,000 grand prize if the model can also keep its computing costs within the required limits. The latest science news delivered to your inbox, every day.Sign up to newsletterBut to reach its unofficial score, o3s cost soared to thousands of dollars spent solving each task. OpenAI requested that the challenge organisers not publish the exact computing costs.Does this o3 achievement show that AGI has been reached?No, the ARC challenge organisers have specifically said they do not consider beating this competition benchmark to be an indicator of having achieved AGI.The o3 model also failed to solve more than 100 visual puzzle tasks, even when OpenAI applied a very large amount of computing power toward the unofficial score, said Mike Knoop, an ARC Challenge organiser at software company Zapier, in a social media post on X.In a social media post on Bluesky, Melanie Mitchell at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico said the following about o3s progress on the ARC benchmark: I think solving these tasks by brute-force compute defeats the original purpose.While the new model is very impressive and represents a big milestone on the way towards AGI, I dont believe this is AGI theres still a fair number of very easy [ARC Challenge] tasks that o3 cant solve, said Chollet in another X post.However, Chollet described how we might know when human-level intelligence has been demonstrated by some form of AGI. Youll know AGI is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible, he said in the blog post.Thomas Dietterich at Oregon State University suggests another way to recognise AGI. Those architectures claim to include all of the functional components required for human cognition, he says. By this measure, the commercial AI systems are missing episodic memory, planning, logical reasoning and, most importantly, meta-cognition.So what does o3s high score really mean?The o3 models high score comes as the tech industry and AI researchers have been reckoning with a slower pace of progress in the latest AI models for 2024, compared with the initial explosive developments of 2023.Although it did not win the ARC Challenge, o3s high score indicates that AI models could beat the competition benchmark in the near future. Beyond its unofficial high score, Chollet says many official low-compute submissions have already scored above 81 per cent on the private evaluation test set.Dietterich also thinks that this is a very impressive leap in performance. However, he cautions that, without knowing more about how OpenAIs o1 and o3 models work, it is impossible to evaluate just how impressive the high score is. For instance, if o3 was able to practise the ARC problems in advance, then that would make its achievement easier. We will need to await an open-source replication to understand the full significance of this, says Dietterich.The ARC Challenge organisers are already looking to launch a second and more difficult set of benchmark tests sometime in 2025. They will also keep the ARC Prize 2025 challenge running until someone achieves the grand prize and open-sources their solution.Topics: