Awfully General Intelligence While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims that the company has the building blocks for artificial general intelligence, a simple test of its most advanced AI system was caught majorly lacking. As Gary Smith of the Mind Matters AI blog reports, OpenAI's o1 "reasoning" model failed spectacularly when tasked with solving the New York Times' notoriously difficult Connections word game. The game's rules are deceptively simple: "to find themes between words." Players are given 16 terms and are tasked with figuring out what they have in common, within groups of four — but because the things relating them can be […]