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Creator of ARC-AGI, co-founder ARC Prize · Dec 20, 2024 · Post, OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub

You'll know AGI is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible.

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Francois Chollet, Creator of ARC-AGI, co-founder ARC Prize
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OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub
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ARC Prize
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arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough

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