Hacker News with Generative AI: Prizes

Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025 (arcprize.org)
Good AGI benchmarks act as useful progress indicators. Better AGI benchmarks clearly discern capabilities. The best AGI benchmarks do all this and actively inspire research and guide innovation.
Artificial Intelligence, Research, Benchmarks, Prizes
186 points by gkamradt 9 days ago | 101 comments
$1M prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old Indus Valley script (archaeologymag.com)
The government of Tamil Nadu has offered a $1-million reward for anyone who can decode the cryptic script of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), one of the world’s oldest urban cultures.
Archaeology, History, India, Ancient Civilizations, Prizes
30 points by bookofjoe 63 days ago | 1 comments
The $5000 Compression Challenge (2001) (patrickcraig.co.uk)
Mike Goldman makes another offer: I will attach a prize of $5,000 to anyone who successfully meets this challenge. First, the contestant will tell me HOW LONG of a data file to generate. Second, I will generate the data file, and send it to the contestant.
Data Compression, Challenges, Prizes
181 points by ekiauhce 130 days ago | 185 comments