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The Moon Should Be a Computer

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This article was featured in PALLADIUM 17: Universal Man. To receive your copy of the latest print edition, subscribe now. Artificial intelligence continues to develop at a rapid pace, with every benchmark seemingly saturated not long after it is created. Recently, even the “LLM-proof” ARC challenge—the “Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus”—suffered a near-fatal blow by OpenAI’s new o3 model, which is a variant of its o1 model available on ChatGPT. ARC was introduced by François Chollet, a French software engineer and AI researcher, as a test of generalization and abstract reasoning. It reportedly cost over $3,000 to solve just one of the challenge problems. Industry leaders such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman believe massive investments in the computational power of AI systems are worthwhile, with Altman suggesting “Infrastructure is Destiny,” and a “New Deal”-sized opportunity awaits if hundreds of billions are spent on energy infrastructure. Their evaluations are driven by the empirical observ

Asimov Collective/Artwork for Palladium 17 This article was featured in PALLADIUM 17: Universal Man . To receive your copy of the latest print edition, subscribe now. Artificial intelligence continues to develop at a rapid pace, with every benchmark seemingly saturated not long after it is created. Recently, even the “LLM-proof” ARC challenge—the “Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus”—suffered a near-fatal blow by OpenAI’s new o3 model, which is a variant of its o1 model available on ChatGPT. ARC was introduced by François Chollet, a French software engineer and AI researcher, as a test of general

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