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An AI system has reached human level on a test for 'general intelligence'. Here's what that means
 OpenAI’s o3 model scored at human level on a benchmark test for artificial general intelligence – far higher than any results before.
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Editor's Note: The ability to accurately solve previously unknown or novel problems from limited samples of data is known as the capacity to generalise. It is widely considered a necessary, even fundamental, element of intelligence.
WorkWork'A stroke left me with an Italian accent' On 4 May, Althia Bryden was found in her bed unresponsive and with her face visibly drooping on the right side. The 58-year-old, from Highbury, north London, was rushed to hospital and found to have had a stroke that had left her unable to speak or feel the upper-right side of her body.
WorkWorkThe Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now? nOe bluebird day in 2021, employees of Fortem Technologies traveled to a flat piece of Utah desert. The land was a good spot to try the company's new innovation: an attachment for the DroneHunter -- which, as the name halfway implies, is a drone that hunts other drones.
WorkWorkHow did human butts evolve to look that way? Ed: Welcome to Butt Month. Every Tuesday in September, Massive will publish an article on the evolution, science, and technology surrounding the butt. If it touches the butt, we'll be covering it. Why Butt Month? Why not.
WorkFrancis Ford Coppola: 'I Have Nothing Left to Lose' F rancis Ford Coppola is sitting in a large, library-like space that is right next to the gift-shop area of his Inglenook Winery in Napa, California, behind a usually closed set of doors. The awards, family pictures, and massive collection of vintage zoetropes are all in the lobby. Work
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WorkWill We Ever Trust Robots? If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes? Work
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WorkNordstrom Family Strikes Deal to Buy Out Namesake Chain Nordstrom, one of the country's oldest department stores, said Monday that it would be taken private by its founding family and a Mexican retail business, reaching an agreement after months of speculation over a potential buyout of the business. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow premodern energy shaped Britain - The Economist (No paywall) Entering Shadow Woods, a coppice just outside the town of Haven in West Sussex, England, is like stepping into a medieval fairy-tale. Before the Industrial Revolution, coppicing, a method of harvesting wood on a multi-year cycle by cutting trees back to a stump, helped meet Britains energy needs. After the tree, usually hazel, hornbeam or oak, is cut, new shoots spring to life. A coppiced tree looks more like a porcupine than the arboreal lollipop of a childs picture book. Shadow Woods was largely abandoned after the second world war and many of the trees are now overstood, grown beyond the point at which they would be harvested, shading the ground and preventing the growth of any new saplings. But they have kept their shape. From each of the hornbeams as many as half a dozen thin trunks rise from a thick stump, resembling the crown of some pagan god. WorkThe New Nosferatu Drains the Life from Its Predecessor - The New Yorker (No paywall) Robert Eggerss remake of the German director F. W. Murnaus 1922 vampire classic, Nosferatu, may be presumptuous, but its not cynical. Murnaus film, a silent, is an adaptation of Bram Stokers Draculaan unauthorized one, which led to a lawsuit from Stokers widow, who won a judgment that the film be destroyed. (The movie, which had already premired, survived as a result of a few prints that had already been exported.) The essence of the original Nosferatu is the prevalenceand destructive powerof age-old metaphysical evil amid a seemingly orderly society. Eggerss version (which he both wrote and directed), though closely modelled on Murnaus film, expands on its situations and themes significantly, and also extrapolates from them in directions all its own. WorkWorkWorkMental Health Leveled Up in 2024 Progress in addressing mental health is notoriously slow and mostly incremental. Breakthrough treatments tend to be rare, and trained professionals too few to meet the demand for services, which is increasing. But 2024 was a pivotal yearthanks to the culmination of decades of research and post-pandemic attention to mental-health issues. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkSudan slides deeper into famine, experts say War-hit Sudan is sliding into a "widening famine crisis" that has been marked by worsening starvation and a surge in acute malnutrition, an independent group of food security experts says. Famine has spread to five areas, with 24. WorkWorkWorkWorkZelenskyy accuses Slovak PM Fico of helping Putin weaken Europe "Moscow provides significant discounts to Fico, but Slovakia pays for them. Such discounts are not free--payments to Russia are made through sovereignty or murky schemes." Zelenskyy said that details of this financing were revealed during the European leaders' meeting in Brussels on Thursday Dec. WorkWorkOne third of adults can't delete device data The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned that many adults don't know how to wipe their old devices, and a worrying number of young people just don't care. Clearing personal data off an old device is an important step before ditching it or handing it on to another user. WorkWorkWorkWorkHow Magdeburg attack mobilizes Germany's extreme right Racist attacks against migrants have come in the wake of the deadly Christmas market attack in Magdeburg. Observers warn of Germany's extreme-right scene mobilizing over the incident. The motive of Talib A.*, the perpetrator of the deadly Christmas Market attack in Magdeburg, is still unclear. WorkWorkWorkWorkCats eat Palestinian corpses in Gaza amid devastating Israeli onslaught  Local authorities condemn 'horrific' Israeli crimes as hospitals, camps, and staff guarding aid are bombed again A woman mourns a Palestinian killed in an Israeli air strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, 23 December (Reuters/Hatem Khaled) Cats were seen eating the corpses of Palestinians i WorkStarbucks strike expands, closes nearly 60 US stores The strike, which began Friday in Los Angeles, Chicago and Starbucks' hometown of Seattle, spread Monday to stores in Boston, Dallas and Portland, Ore. Workers in New York, Denver, Pittsburgh and other cities had also joined the strike over the weekend. |
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