If I find a cool piece of driftwood and frame it, did I do art?

Kinda? I "found" a defective injection molding part, where the color of previous batch seeped in in a pattern that looks like a flower. It's really pretty. That there is no intention behind it makes it more interesting to me. It wasn't trivial to put it on a wall. I had to use nails and iron wire and then balance it. I am fine with not calling it art. On a scale 1-10 it definitely is not more than 2.

I think it's more like Alien vs Predator.

I'm wondering about the benchmark too. It's way above my level to figure out how it can be gamed. But, buried in the article:

Moreover, ARC-AGI-1 is now saturating – besides o3's new score, the fact is that a large ensemble of low-compute Kaggle solutions can now score 81% on the private eval.

The most expensive o3 version achieved 87.5%

Also, I the image is perfect. I especially like the Joe Kucan-looking general embedded in the star trek tactical station. The Technology of Peace ain’t what it used to be, is it?

Is that a screenshot from Command&Conquer 4?

It was supposed to. I'm just not that good at writing.

Yeah, neural network training is notoriously easy to reproduce /s.

Just few things can affect results: source data, data labels, network structure, training parameters, version of training script, versions of libraries, seed for random number generator, hardware, operating system.

Also, deployment is another can of worms.

Also, even if you have open source script, data and labels, there's no guarantee you'll have useful documentation for either of these.

Then there is John Michael Greer...

Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

A regular contributor at UnHerd...

I did not know that, and I hate that it doesn't surprise me. I tended to dismiss his peak oil doomerism as wishing for some imagined "harmony with nature". This doesn't help with that bias.

The first paragraph surprised me. I didn't know there were still some true believers left.

YAML is great if you need to make simple configuration files

... which is why no one uses it for things like Kubernetes /s