OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills
Will Knight | Wired
“The o3 model scores much higher on several measures than its predecessor, OpenAI says, including ones that measure complex coding-related skills and advanced math and science competency. It’s 3 times higher than o1 at answering questions posed by ARC-AGI, a benchmark designed to check an AI models’ ability to reason over extremely difficult mathematical and logic problems they’re encountering for the primary time.”
Recent Physics Sim Trains Robots 430,000 Times Faster Than Reality
Benj Edwards | Ars Technica
“On Thursday, a big group of university and personal industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a brand new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the true world. …’One hour of compute time gives a robot 10 years of coaching experience. That’s how Neo was in a position to learn martial arts in a blink of a watch within the Matrix Dojo,’ wrote Genesis paper co-author Jim Fan on X, who says he played a ‘minor part’ within the research.”
Waymo Still Doing Higher Than Humans at Stopping Injuries and Property Damage
Andrew J. Hawkins | The Verge
“They found that the performance of Waymo’s vehicles was safer than that of humans, with an 88 percent reduction in property damage claims and a 92 percent reduction in bodily injury claims. Across 25.3 million miles, Waymo was involved in nine property damage claims and two bodily injury claims. The common human driving the same distance could be expected to have 78 property damage and 26 bodily injury claims, the corporate says.”
A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney
Emily Mullin | Wired
“Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after undergoing the procedure at NYU Langone Health on November 25. She was discharged from the hospital on December 6, and her doctors say she is in good health. Her surgery is the newest in a series of comparable procedures often known as xenotransplantation, the practice of transplanting organs from one species to a different.”
We’re About to Fly a Spacecraft Into the Sun for the First Time
Eric Berger | Ars Technica
“On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun. It’s going to come inside just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) of the solar surface, flying into the solar atmosphere for the primary time. Yeah, it’s going to get pretty hot. Scientists estimate that the probe’s heat shield will endure temperatures in excess of two,500° Fahrenheit (1,371° C) on Christmas Eve, which is just about the polar opposite of the North Pole.”
Smart Glasses Won Me Over, and This Is the Pair That Did It
Joanna Stern | The Wall Street Journal
“Meta’s Ray-Bans and its prototype Orion hint at the long run of smart glasses—sleek, stylish and truly wearable. This was the yr smart glasses won me over. These lighter-weight face computers are the subsequent step in how we interact with one another and our surroundings. This isn’t virtual-reality or a detour to the metaverse—you see the true world, just with digital stuff in it. And also you have a look at your phone so much less.”
‘Deep Research’ Shows How Google Can Win the AI Race
Mark Sullivan | Fast Company
“After I agreed to the plan, the agent got busy. …I watched because it raced over the web and started compiling an inventory of sources. About three minutes later it had compiled a 60-item list of source articles and publications, including research papers, journal articles, Medium posts, and Reddit discussions. From all these sources, the agent synthesized a 2,100-word, citation-filled essay that answered my query. Impressive.”
Tips on how to Disappear Completely
s.e. smith | The Verge
“We’re watching the web slip away as web sites and apps rise and fall, swallowed by private equity, shuttered by burnout, or just frozen in time—taking with it our memories, our cultural phenomena, our memes. …How comfortable are we with the disappearance of entire swaths of careers and artistic pursuits? And who’s making these decisions—private equity or journalists, AI or archivists, billionaires or staff? The answers to those questions, and the way in which we define ourselves today, will shape our culture of the long run.”
