Connections claims another victim. Awful General IntelligenceWhile OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims that the company already has the building blocks for artificial general intelligence, a simple test of its most advanced publicly-avilable AI system was caught majorly lacking by a puzzle that countless people do every day.As Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence senior fellow Gary Smith writes for Mind Matters, OpenAI’s o1 “reasoning” model failed spectacularly when tasked with solving the New York Times’ notoriously tricky Connections word game.The game’s rules are deceptively simple. Players are given 16 terms and…