Pokemon Pockets Mythical Island hides some secret missions behind its shiny booster packs, with only a few lucky players unlocking their rewards so far. One of these is the Tale of Adventure, a Themed Collection task that grants the rare Celebi emblem. The question is: How do you complete this secret mission and earn the emblem? Keep reading for a quick, detailed Pokemon Pocket guide that explains everything you need to know about the Celebi emblem and how to unlock it.

I would like to find out more about how the CPU's are functioning. Just the basic idea. Performing a mathematical operation on two bits takes more then 10 boolean gates (at least addition takes that much). 10 interconnected boolean gates make a farm field. A 32 bit number vs another 32 bit number requires 32 fields of 10 gates each. That's one math operation. Four types of math operations is four time that: 4x32x10. (There might be other non basic math operations like square root which have d

The pace of technology innovation has accelerated in the past year, most dramatically in AI. And in 2024, there was no better place to be a part of creating those breakthroughs than NVIDIA Research.NVIDIA Research is comprised of hundreds of extremely bright people pushing the frontiers of knowledge, not just in AI, but across many areas of technology.In the past year, NVIDIA Research laid the groundwork for future improvements in GPU performance with major research discoveries in circuits, memory architecture and sparse arithmetic. The teams invention of novel graphics techniques continues to raise the bar for real-time rendering. And we developed new methods for improving the efficiency of AI requiring less energy, taking fewer GPU cycles and delivering even better results.But the most exciting developments of the year have been in generative AI.Were now able to generate, not just images and text, but 3D models, music and sounds. Were also developing better control over what is generated: to generate realistic humanoid motion and to generate sequences of images with consistent subjects.The application of generative AI to science has resulted in high-resolution weather forecasts that are more accurate than conventional numerical weather models. AI models have given us the ability to accurately predict how blood glucose levels respond to different foods. Embodied generative AI is being used to develop autonomous vehicles and robots.And that was just this year. What follows is a deeper dive into some of NVIDIA Researchs greatest generative AI work in 2024. Of course, we continue to develop new models and methods for AI, and expect even more exciting results next year.ConsiStory: AI-Generated Images With Main Character EnergyConsiStory, a collaboration between researchers at NVIDIA and Tel Aviv University, makes it easier to generate multiple images with a consistent main character an essential capability for storytelling use cases such as illustrating a comic strip or developing a storyboard.The researchers approach introduced a technique called subject-driven shared attention, which reduces the time it takes to generate consistent imagery from 13 minutes to around 30 seconds.Read the ConsiStory paper.ConsiStory is capable of generating a series of images featuring the same character.Edify 3D: Generative AI Enters a New DimensionNVIDIA Edify 3D is a foundation model that enables developers and content creators to quickly generate 3D objects that can be used to prototype ideas and populate virtual worlds.Edify 3D helps creators quickly ideate, lay out and conceptualize immersive environments with AI-generated assets. Novice and experienced content creators can use text and image prompts to harness the model, which is now part of the NVIDIA Edify multimodal architecture for developing visual generative AI.Read the Edify 3D paper and watch the video on YouTube.Fugatto: Flexible AI Sound Machine for Music, Voices and MoreA team of NVIDIA researchers recently unveiled Fugatto, a foundational generative AI model that can create or transform any mix of music, voices and sounds based on text or audio prompts.The model can, for example, create music snippets based on text prompts, add or remove instruments from existing songs, modify the accent or emotion in a voice recording, or generate completely novel sounds. It could be used by music producers, ad agencies, video game developers or creators of language learning tools.Read the Fugatto paper.GluFormer: AI Predicts Blood Sugar Levels Four Years OutResearchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv-based startup Pheno.AI and NVIDIA led the development of GluFormer, an AI model that can predict an individuals future glucose levels and other health metrics based on past glucose monitoring data.The researchers showed that, after adding dietary intake data into the model, GluFormer can also predict how a persons glucose levels will respond to specific foods and dietary changes, enabling precision nutrition. The research team validated GluFormer across 15 other datasets and found it generalizes well to predict health outcomes for other groups, including those with prediabetes, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes and obesity.Read the GluFormer paper.LATTE3D: Enabling Near-Instant Generation, From Text to 3D ShapeAnother 3D generator released by NVIDIA Research this year is LATTE3D, which converts text prompts into 3D representations within a second like a speedy, virtual 3D printer. Crafted in a popular format used for standard rendering applications, the generated shapes can be easily served up in virtual environments for developing video games, ad campaigns, design projects or virtual training grounds for robotics.Read the LATTE3D paper.MaskedMimic: Reconstructing Realistic Movement for Humanoid RobotsTo advance the development of humanoid robots, NVIDIA researchers introduced MaskedMimic, an AI framework that applies inpainting the process of reconstructing complete data from an incomplete, or masked, view to descriptions of motion.Given partial information, such as a text description of movement, or head and hand position data from a virtual reality headset, MaskedMimic can fill in the blanks to infer full-body motion. Its become part of NVIDIA Project GR00T, a research initiative to accelerate humanoid robot development.Read the MaskedMimic paper.StormCast: Boosting Weather Prediction, Climate SimulationIn the field of climate science, NVIDIA Research announced StormCast, a generative AI model for emulating atmospheric dynamics. While other machine learning models trained on global data have a spatial resolution of about 30 kilometers and a temporal resolution of six hours, StormCast achieves a 3-kilometer, hourly scale.The researchers trained StormCast on approximately three-and-a-half years of NOAA climate data from the central U.S. When applied with precipitation radars, StormCast offers forecasts with lead times of up to six hours that are up to 10% more accurate than the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations state-of-the-art 3-kilometer regional weather prediction model.Read the StormCast paper, written in collaboration with researchers from Lawrence BerkeleyNational Laboratory and the University of Washington.NVIDIA Research Sets Records in AI, Autonomous Vehicles, RoboticsThrough 2024, models that originated in NVIDIA Research set records across benchmarks for AI training and inference, route optimization, autonomous driving and more.NVIDIA cuOpt, an optimization AI microservice used for logistics improvements, has 23 world-record benchmarks. The NVIDIA Blackwell platform demonstrated world-class performance on MLPerf industry benchmarks for AI training and inference.In the field of autonomous vehicles, Hydra-MDP, an end-to-end autonomous driving framework by NVIDIA Research, achieved first place on the End-To-End Driving at Scale track of the Autonomous Grand Challenge at CVPR 2024.In robotics, FoundationPose, a unified foundation model for 6D object pose estimation and tracking, obtained first place on the BOP leaderboard for model-based pose estimation of unseen objects.Learn more about NVIDIA Research, which has hundreds of scientists and engineers worldwide. NVIDIA Research teams are focused on topics including AI, computer graphics, computer vision, self-driving cars and robotics.

Clue, the murder-mystery board game, has been a staple of game nights and big-box store shelves for as long as we can remember. In fact, 2024 marks Clues 75th anniversary.First released as Clue in the United States in 1949 by Parker Brothers, the game has sold more than 150 million copies and is listed as the second-most-popular board game in the world behind Monopoly (and not including chess and checkers), according to Hasbro, which bought Parker Brothers in 1991. But Clues story doesnt actually start in 1949. The game dates back even further, all the way to the second World War.To learn about its origins and future, we spoke with Hasbros resident Clue expert and senior vice president of board games Brian Baker.[Ed. note: This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.]Polygon: How did Clue come to be?Brian Baker: Were going to have to go all the way back to 1943. Thats when the story begins, with a musician named Anthony Pratt. He was a piano player in Birmingham, England, and he would play at these lavish murder-mystery parties at the manors in the countryside.During the air raids in World War II, when England was being bombed by [the German military], they [the English] were in the bomb shelters. He wanted to capture the experience that he witnessed while playing piano at these parties in a game. So Anthony came up with the idea of a game that he called Cluedo, which took place in a mansion and there was a crime in this case, it was a murder. And theres all these colorful suspects and weapons, and the object of the game was to figure out who committed the murder with what weapon and where in the manor did the crime actually take place.The name Cluedo was a play on the Latin word ludo, which means I play, and the word clue. So that became Cluedo. Ludo is also the British derivative of Parcheesi or Pachisi, which originated in ancient India. So the origin of the name actually goes back much, much further than 1943. But he brought [Cluedo] to a British publisher named Waddingtons [which was acquired by Hasbro in 1994], who initially published the game, and then it was kind of licensed by Parker Brothers in 1949 and renamed Clue because Ludo as a name and as a game wasnt widely played in the U.S.This year marks 75 years of Clue. How has it changed during that time?Obviously a lot of time has passed, and the people who play this game, their taste has changed, and the world has changed. So theres been a lot of slight modifications to the games, with regards to the characters and the weapons and the rooms, just to make it more accessible and relevant to todays audience.Originally, there were 11 rooms in the manor, and a few have been eliminated. There was a gun room and a cellar, so those are no longer part of the manor. There were nine weapons [including] an undetonated or unused bomb, a syringe, and a fireplace poker so those have been replaced.To make a game feel modern and relevant for todays audience, especially over a time span like 75 years, its important to make sure that you dont keep it static. Its constantly evolving, and evolves with the tastes and needs of our players.How often does the base game change?We try not to change it too much. We call it a refresh, and the last time we touched the core Clue game was last year. We published a new version that launched in early 2023. For that edition, we did a bunch of things. We gave the characters backstories and made them more interesting and offered a lot of depth. For example, Mrs. White is now a chef. Mrs. Peacock is a lawyer. We just felt like the players of Clue have always wondered who these characters are.We try not to reinvent it every single year, but we do have to look at it at least every four years to make sure that the game thats on the shelf reflects the tastes of todays players. Even the manor back in 1943, when the game was first invented, looks a lot different than I think what people would associate with a mansion today.Theres been a lot of different versions. What weve tried to do is make sure that the furniture and the decor doesnt look dated, it looks elegant and sophisticated. With todays printing technologies, we can print with a much higher resolution, with a lot richer color and a much broader palette. And so if you look at some of the original illustrations and artwork of the game, you can tell that theyre antiques and theyre not necessarily something that was printed and published today. So we try to preserve the character and authentic nature of the game, but use all of the ingredients that we have access to in modern board game publishing.How have these technological advances affected the materials that you use for the game?In the latest version of Clue, one thing youll notice is the pawns are actually miniatures of the Clue characters, whereas previously they were generic pawns Colonel Mustard was yellow, Professor Plum was purple, and thats the way you would play.For an 8-year-old child its way more fun to play with a tiny miniature of that character. Thats really enabled by some of the molding techniques and some of the rapid prototyping were using. We can get a lot more detail in the features of those miniatures. Whereas previously we were limited around size and resolution those characters would look more like blobs, rather than having everything down to the cheekbones and the hair that we can have on these miniatures today. Thats one area thats been really impactful.We pay a lot of attention to the weight of the card stock to make sure it feels premium. In the new version, the weapons are slightly larger, a little bit heavier. And while those might not be technologically new advancements, theyre details that we pay a lot of attention to.Why focus so much on the tactile feeling of a game, versus the mechanics or the gameplay aspect?To me, the tactile feel of those components is the soul of board games because were competing many times against digital games where its about swiping, pushing a button, moving a controller. One thing that will never be replaced is the sensation of shuffling cards, dealing them out, moving a miniature around a board, rolling dice. Theres digital ways to replace all of those experiences we can generate random numbers using a phone, we can create a digital board on a screen but why is it that these games are still around? Its because thats the one thing that players dont want to give up. They want to roll dice. They want to shuffle cards. They want to hold them in their hand, and they want to move the pawns around the board themselves. But from the time of the ancient Egyptians and the Romans, who are playing games like this, to today, that hasnt changed and it probably wont change into the future.Murder mysteries seem to be big in popular media right now. Whats next for Clue?Like Glass Onion or White Lotus, the idea of murder mystery is somewhat timeless. With all of the content thats out there, it seems like its only increasing. Were excited because we have an entertainment division thats working closely with Sony Pictures right now across multiple different live-action, unscripted, and other mediums to kind of build out the franchise.

Pokmon Gos yearly New Years event for 2025 (dubbed New Years 2025) has started, taking place from Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, until Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. The event brings back Pokmon in party hats, as well as some other perks, including Timed Research.Notably, youll get 2,025 XP for each Pokmon caught with an excellent throw. The extended time bonus on Adventure Incense that began during the Holiday Part 2 event is also continuing until Jan. 5, so take advantage of that while you can.Below we list all the other perks for Pokmon Gos New Years 2025 event, including the Timed Research, spawns, and Field Research Tasks.Pokmon Go New Years 2025 event free Timed Research and rewardIf you complete this research before the event ends, youll get some of the featured costumed Pokmon.New Years 2025 step 1 of 1Catch 20 Pokmon (Jigglypuff [ribbon] encounter)Catch 24 Pokmon (2,024 Stardust)Catch 20 Pokmon (Hoothoot [New Years] encounter)Catch 25 Pokmon (2,024 Stardust)Reward: Pikachu (beanie) encounterPokmon Go New Years 2025 event paid Timed Research and rewardFor $2, you can get a paid set of Timed Research to complete that rewards three Premium Battle Passes, three Lucky Eggs, and several encounters with the costumed New Years-themed Pokmon. Is the New Years 2025 paid ticket worth it? Yes, for the value alone, $2 for three raid passes and three Lucky Eggs is a great deal. You do, however, have to complete the research fully before Jan. 1 at 8 p.m. in your local time to get the rewards.We list the steps for this research below.New Years 2025 Premium research step 1 of 1Catch 20 Pokmon (Jigglypuff [ribbon] encounter)Catch 24 Pokmon (Wobbuffet [party hat] encounter)Catch 20 Pokmon (Hoothoot [New Years] encounter)Catch 25 Pokmon (Raticate [party hat] encounter)Evolve a Pokmon (Pikachu [beanie] encounter)Rewards: 3 Premium Raid Passes, 3 Lucky Eggs, 2,025 StardustPokmon Go New Years 2025 event Field Research and rewardsSpinning a PokStop during the event period may yield one of these tasks:Catch 10 Pokmon (Jigglypuff [ribbon], Hoothoot [New Years], or Wurmple [party hat] encounter)Make an excellent throw (Raticate [party hat], Pikachu [beanie], Jigglypuff [ribbon], Hoothoot [New Years], Wobbuffet [party hat], or Wurmple [party hat] encounter)Win a raid (Raticate [party hat], Pikachu [beanie], Jigglypuff [ribbon], Hoothoot [New Years], Wobbuffet [party hat], or Wurmple [party hat] encounter)Pokmon Go New Years 2025 event boosted spawnsThese Pokmon will spawn more frequently during the event period:Jigglypuff (ribbon)Hoothoot (New Years)Wurmple (party hat)Pokmon Go New Years 2025 event raid targetsThe following changes to theraid scheduleandMax Battle schedulewill take place as part of the event:One-star raidsThree-star raidsPikachu (snowflake beanie)Raticate (party hat)Wobbuffet (party hat)

One of Marvel Comics oldest traditions has been the What If title, a series that aims to take the Marvel universe as we know it and ponder what said universe would be like if something (whether it be a small, seemingly insignificant detail or the absence of entire superteams) was different. So when Marvel Studios announced in 2019 that one of its marquee titles for the then-upcoming Disney Plus would be an animated series akin to the classic comics, the possibilities seemed endless.But, five years and three seasons after that original announcement, its clear that Disney Plus What If? was at best a series of missed opportunities and at worst an all-around waste of time. But how did it go so wrong? How did Marvel Studios look at its gigantic sandbox and still only play just around the edges of its existing teams, universes, and outcomes, stuck within the safety of the immediate radius of its theatrical and TV offerings? The answer isnt just one looming factor, but many moving pieces that ensured What If? would remain nothing more than a Disney Plus catalog-filler when it couldve been so much more. From the restrictions of streaming to the reluctant fear of insinuating a misstep in the MCUs complicated architecture, What If? never really stood a chance in Marvels current form.Upon its initial announcement, What If? had a clear, undeniably interesting selling point: Each episode will explore a pivotal moment from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and turn it on its head, leading the audience into uncharted territory. But, in practice, the series only seldomly used the existing pivotal moments from the long-winded cinematic universe as inspiration, instead swapping superteam leaders (What If TChalla Became a Star-Lord?), giving the Hulks power to just about anyone (What If Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?), or making Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) birth a literal duck egg for some reason (What If Howard the Duck Got Hitched?), rather than engaging with the actual, widely accepted cornerstones of the MCU.While I dont believe its conducive to retroactively complain about what a show couldve been while engaging in scathing criticism of the final product, What If?s reluctance to shake up moments that truly define the MCU (What if Clint had sacrificed himself on Vormir? What if the other half got snapped away in Infinity War?) betrays the series reluctance to insinuate that anything within the MCU was done poorly the first time around or that there was a better story hidden within both the MCUs greatest successes and greatest flops.Because retooling that moment in Endgame, for example, would change so much about Marvels trajectory since Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) sacrificed herself, but it would also provide sufficient ammunition for those that believe Marvel made the wrong choice in killing her off the first time around. In an effort to avoid inadvertently critiquing the MCUs final product, What If? instead remains committed to playing in the safest worlds, with the heroes coming out on top each and every time. With friendship stopping Kaiju Hulk from destroying the world to The Watcher intervening when he deems necessary to avoid repeat tragedy, the series refusal to play in the darkness and drama of the MCU makes this supposed expansion of the universe feel small and limited in comparison. For a show that should have made the MCU feel all the more vibrant and unexplored, What If? cowered when faced with the untapped potential waiting just beyond its comfortable reach. That hesitance is why What If? steers clear of anything remotely interesting or world-shattering when engaging with its own past.So when the series is actually brave enough to offer up an interesting idea like season 3s third episode, What If the Red Guardian Stopped the Winter Soldier? which sees Alexi (David Harbour) stop Bucky (Sebastian Stan) from killing Tony Starks parents that fateful night the episode never mentions how that single change would impact the events of Civil War. Instead, its another goofy, borderline boring, buddy-cop road chase between an uber-Communist Red Guardian and a surprisingly personable Winter Soldier. What couldve been a thoughtful reexamination of the relationship between Tony and Bucky is instead, as per usual, played for laughs, starkly contradicting each episodes deathly serious, Jeffrey Wright-voiced intro.But even more so, What If? cannot engage in meaningful examinations of past events because the series is just as guilty of the MCUs greatest pitfalls and overdone beats. In the final episode, the serialized nature of the show comes back in full swing, with the new Guardians of the Multiverse Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), Kahori (Devery Jacobs), Asgardian Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), and Byrdie the Duck (Natasha Lyonne) fighting the Watchers council to free their friend Uatu (Wright). To save the multiverse, Peggy sacrifices herself, joining a long line of female characters to meet their end within the MCU. From Agathas (Kathryn Hahn) recent sacrifice at the end of Agatha All Along to Natashas infamous jump, this beat is overplayed and tired, resulting in an overabundance of dead female characters lost to the MCUs apparent lack of creativity. How can What If? claim to be a paragon of creativity and disruption within this cinematic universe if it remains shackled to the MCUs basest, most uninspired choices?By being tied to the MCU, What If? was immediately set up for failure. Beyond the ways the series refuses to play in this sprawling sandbox in any meaningful way, its status as a streaming show turned it into a kind of Frankensteins monster in execution. What If? attempts to fulfill its anthology promises and satisfy the expectations of hyperserialization of the streaming era, ultimately failing at both. When the series becomes laser-focused on a single concept, like in season 3s What If 1872? the potential shines through, offering a Western romp filled with tangible stakes and delightful reinterpretations of iconic characters. When the show reverts to its serialized narrative fully, like in season 3s What If the Watcher Disappeared? What If? manages to maintain its fun as the found-family superhero girl gang at the center of this continuing story feels whole and realized despite the lack of proper exploration. But its the in between that makes the series as a whole suffer. Season 3, in particular, swings from goofy Hollywood adventures to deathly serious end-of-the-world stakes, unable to maintain a single tone. The result is a season that feels split down the center, with its sillier opening half delivering on its anthology promises and the more dour final four episodes reverting back to the serialization weve come to expect. By attempting to live in both worlds, What If? succeeds at neither tone or format, buckling under its own confused ambition.In many ways, What If? as a concept feels more suited to the Fox era of Marvel animation, where X-Men: The Animated Series was allowed nearly 20 episodes per season, and the one-off episodic adventures could have thrived in a television landscape that didnt look down upon shows that favored a less-interconnected format. In comparison to its MCU peers series that often feel more like movies chopped into messy parts rather than actual, proper TV shows What If? attempted to live within that world as well, always reverting back to the often out-of-place continuous thread running across its three seasons. But while season 2 at least featured a heavy dose of Peggy every few episodes to maintain interest in her overarching storyline, season 3 treats it like an afterthought, throwing Peggy, the Guardians of the Multiverse, and the Watchers plight into the final two episodes unprompted.Its that complete confusion and disconnect that has made What If? as frustrating to watch as it has been over the course of the past three seasons. By never living up to its fullest MCU potential and refusing to commit to a clear path, What If? had the audacity to be boring. The faint sparks of life in the series few standout episodes are drowned out by the nonsensical and uninspired choices made along the way, thus ensuring that What If?, now complete and unwrapped after eight days, will fade into the MCUs never-ending ether. For daring to be unremarkable, What If? will likely be quickly forgotten, with its truly ludicrous cast and broken promises receding into the far recesses of Disney Plus as a failed MCU experiment never worth revisiting.

When it comes time to take down your natural tree, you might think that tossing it in the fireplace is an economical and simple solution for disposal. However, its not a good idea to burn your Christmas tree for firewoodit can cause issues with your fireplace and chimney. Rather than risking your safety, there are other more sustainable ways to reuse your tree and still cut down on disposal costs.Evergreen trees tend to have pitch or sap, as well as needles. Because of these differences from traditional firewood, your tree could burn very hot, throw lots of sparks, and cause creosote build-up in your chimney. Creosote can cause a chimney fire if it gets thick enough before your chimney is cleaned. An overly hot fire could also damage the bricks or masonry of your chimney, causing it not to work properly to carry smoke safely to the outdoors. An overly smoky fire from uncured wood is also a danger when using a Christmas tree as fuel, so the best practice is to only use seasoned firewood thats intended to be burned as fuel.Best ways to recycle a Christmas treeThere are other ways you can "recycle" a Christmas tree, though, that are safer. Here are some ideas:Use it as firewood in an outdoor fire pit. Although you should take precautions to avoid igniting surrounding brush or dry grass from escaped sparks, you can choose to burn your Christmas tree in an outdoor fire pit. Since a fire pit doesnt require a chimney or a flue, you dont need to worry about causing a chimney fire with pitchy wood. Because needles can cause very hot and unpredictable fires, you should always have proper fire extinguishers and hoses at the ready just in case.Use it for mulch. Christmas trees make great wood chips and they can be used as a weed barrier for landscaping projects. In some places, your local trash pick-up might have a tree pick-up program where trees can go to be recycled into wood chips. If not, you can always decide to split a chipper rental with the neighborhood and get some low-cost, fresh-smelling mulch from the deal.Get out your chainsaw for some DIY projects. Cutting up the wood from your tree to make some clever DIY coasters from the rounds of the trunk of your tree is a fun way to recycle your tree. You can make a border for your garden bed with sections of your trees trunk. As with any chainsaw project, make sure you wear a face shield, heavy gloves, and protective clothing to avoid turning your holiday recycling project into a trip to the ER.Use smaller branches as plant markers and plant stakes. Select your branch and remove all the smaller twigs and needles from it. Then, use a vegetable peeler or a sharp knife to remove the bark. You can write the name of your plant on the stake or marker with a permanent marker once the bark is removed.Make sachets from pine needles. Using scraps of fabric sewn into small pillows and stuffed with the needles, this type of sachet can be used to keep drawers and cabinets fresh. You can also use needles (or branches with lots of needles) to cover vegetable gardens or perennials during the winter. This practice can add nutrients back into the soil, as well as help prevent mold.

OpenAI has unveiled a new model for its products, arriving for users near the end of January, 2025: It's called o3 (we seem to have jumped over o2), and it promises another significant step forward in AI reasoning. According to its developers, it will make tools like ChatGPT better than ever at programming and working out math problems.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described o3 as "incredibly smart" in the video announcing the model, released as part of his company's "12 Days of OpenAI" promotion over the holiday season. The model is undergoing a variety of safety tests before it launches in fullfirst likely only for paying ChatGPT Plus users.The o3 model is more than 20 percent better than the previous o1 model at coding, per the SWE-bench Verified benchmark, OpenAI says. It also scores strongly on math and science problems, at least according to benchmark testslike o1, the o3 model is trained to think and reason before it answers, rigorously testing its responses for accuracy. OpenAI will also release a smaller, faster o3-mini model alongside the main update. The pattern of completing squares with a darker blue square is simple for humans, but hard for AIand it's a challenge that's part of ARC. Credit: ARC We won't know just how good o3 is until users can actually test it, but we already have an idea of what o3 can do because it's been tested against the well-known Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) challenge, designed to track AI's progress towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)the somewhat contentious point at which AI cognitive capabilities pass those of humans.This challenge gets AI to come up with new approaches to problems, rather than just relying on its memory, and involves a series of visual tasks for models to complete. They must match patterns in colored grids, exercises intended to be easy for people to complete without any training, but hard for AI to figure out.Within the computing power boundaries of the ARC test, o3 scored 75.7%. That's way above the 5% achieved by the GPT-4o model, currently the best ChatGPT model available to free users. While we're still some way short of AGI (the model is still below human scores, and couldn't complete all the tasks), that's an impressive step up. o1 and o1-mini are currently available to ChatGPT Plus users. Credit: Lifehacker "OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks," writes Franois Chollet, the software engineer who designed the ARC test. "This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities compared to the prior limitations of LLMs."Predictably, OpenAI didn't talk about the energy demands of AI, the ethics of training AI on publicly available data that may be copyrighted, or the tendency for these models to hallucinate wrong answerswhile mistakes should be fewer because of o3's extra thinking time, they won't be eradicated. What the company did mention is an expansion of its safety testing program, designed to prevent these models from being used for malicious purposes.The ability for AI models to truly "think" or "reason"or at least attempt some approximation of those human capabilitieswill no doubt continue to be discussed as AI development progresses. Google has also just unveiled its Gemini 2.0 model, which brings with it improved reasoning.

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