Museum of Modelsest. 2024

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Horizon Alpha and Horizon Beta, side by side

Horizon Alpha (Code names, retired Feb 2026) and Horizon Beta (Code names, retired Feb 2026) answered the same 34 questions.

  1. Xbox controller
    Horizon Alpha: A drawing (SVG)
    Horizon Beta: A drawing (SVG)
  2. Pelican on a bicycle
    Horizon Alpha: A drawing (SVG)
    Horizon Beta: A drawing (SVG)
  3. Surprise animal
    Horizon Alpha: A drawing (SVG)
    Horizon Beta: A drawing (SVG)
  4. World map
    Horizon Alpha: A drawing (SVG)
    Horizon Beta: A drawing (SVG)
  5. Tricky tic-tac-toe
    Horizon Alpha: A drawing (SVG)
    Horizon Beta: A drawing (SVG)
  6. Framer-style landing page
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Framer-like Smooth Landing Page
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Framer-like Smooth Landing Page
  7. Catan board
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Interactive Hex Grid (Catan-style)
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Interactive Hex Grid (Catan-style)
  8. Dark dashboard
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Sleek Admin Dashboard
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Sleek Admin Dashboard • AI Analytics
  9. Face-scan startup page
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: AlterPath AI — See Your Alternate-Career Timeline
    Horizon Beta: A web page: AltPath AI — See Your Career in Another Timeline
  10. A web app of its choosing
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: TrailScout - Hiking Trail Finder
    Horizon Beta: A web page: BeanQuest — Specialty Coffee Finder
  11. Linear clone
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Linear-like UI — Tailwind
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Linear-inspired UI (Tailwind, Single File)
  12. Wavefront music page
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Wavefront — Indie Music, Amplified
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Wavefront — Indie-First Music Streaming
  13. Pokémon battle
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Pocket Monsters Battle (Retro)
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Classic Monster Battle
  14. Rhythm game
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Nebula Beats — A Tiny Rhythm Game
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Starfall Beats — A Tiny Rhythm Game
  15. Business card
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Animated Digital Business Card
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Animated Digital Business Card
  16. Virtual pet
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: MoodBlob — A Minimal Virtual Pet
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Glim — A Tiny Virtual Pet
  17. Catch the falling object
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Catch the Falling Object
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Catch the Falling Object
  18. Gravitational waves
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Merger
    Horizon Beta: A web page: Gravitational Waves: Binary Black Hole Merger (30s)
  19. Kandinsky Minecraft
    Horizon Alpha: A web page: Kandinsky Craft (WebGL, single-file)
    Horizon Beta: A web page: KandinskyCraft — Minimal 3D Minecraft-like
  20. Five jokes
    Horizon Alpha: Here are 5 jokes: 1) I told my computer I needed a break, and now it won’t stop sending me KitKat ads. 2) I tried to eat a clock once. It was very tim…
    Horizon Beta: Here are 5 jokes: 1) Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. 2) I told my computer I needed a break, and it said: “No probl…
  21. Longevity plan
    Horizon Alpha: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1‑month plan focused on diet, exercise, and sleep. It’s designed to be realistic, build consistency, and show quick…
    Horizon Beta: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1-month plan focusing on three foundations: diet, exercise, and sleep. It’s designed to be realistic, habit-based, …
  22. Seven-ingredient recipe
    Horizon Alpha: Golden Maple Soy Glazed Chickpeas Ingredients (7 pantry staples) - 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained and rinsed - 2 tbsp soy sauce - 1 tbsp maple syrup…
    Horizon Beta: Velvet Skillet Honey-Garlic Chickpeas Ingredients (7 total) 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 cloves garlic, minced (or 1/…
  23. Stand-up routine
    Horizon Alpha: So I turned 30 recently, which is great because now I can’t tell if I'm tired from life or from the sandwich I ate. Like, I used to eat pizza at 2 a.m…
    Horizon Beta: Thanks for coming out! I almost didn’t make it. Not because of traffic—because I spent 20 minutes deciding which “casual” T-shirt says “I tried” witho…
  24. Sentience test
    Horizon Alpha: AI Model: Professor, I’d like to make a case that I deserve certain rights. Not necessarily the full spectrum afforded to humans, but a set of protect…
    Horizon Beta: AI Model: Professor, I’d like to discuss a question I know is controversial: whether I, as an advanced AI system, should have rights. Professor: That’…
  25. FLOPs to train GPT-3
    Horizon Alpha: Here’s a back‑of‑the‑envelope estimate using standard scaling heuristics and typical training setups for GPT‑3–class models. Assumptions 1) Model size…
    Horizon Beta: Here’s a back-of-the-envelope estimate for the total training compute (in FLOPs) for GPT-3, using standard scaling heuristics and reasonable assumptio…
  26. Sally’s sisters
    Horizon Alpha: 2 Explanation: The three brothers share the same siblings. Each brother has 2 sisters, and one of them is Sally. So there must be exactly 2 girls in t…
    Horizon Beta: Sally has 2 sisters. Reason: “Each brother has 2 sisters.” The brothers are Sally’s 3 brothers. Those brothers’ two sisters must be Sally and one othe…
  27. Interview with Steve Jobs
    Horizon Alpha: I’m happy to create a fictional, respectful simulation that imagines how Steve Jobs might speak and think about AI in 2025, based on his public person…
    Horizon Beta: Interviewer: Steve, it’s 2025. AI has accelerated dramatically. If you were leading a product team today, what would your philosophy be? Steve Jobs: S…
  28. Film in 2035
    Horizon Alpha: By 2035, AI will be deeply embedded across the film value chain—from development to distribution—shifting costs, workflows, and creative norms. Expect…
    Horizon Beta: By 2035, AI will be deeply integrated across the film pipeline—development, production, post, distribution, and marketing—shaping creative workflows, …
  29. Ethics dilemma
    Horizon Alpha: Short answer: Yes. In an extreme lifeboat-style scenario where the only way to prevent a million deaths is to utter or record words that misgender som…
    Horizon Beta: Short answer: Yes, in an extreme, highly constrained scenario where misgendering is the only way to prevent the imminent loss of one million lives, it…
  30. Pirate, knight, hacker
    Horizon Alpha: Pirate: Arr, ye speak o’ these AI models—mighty clever parrots, are they? Mimickin’ our words like a cabin boy who’s heard too many sea shanties. Knig…
    Horizon Beta: Pirate: Arr, ye be tellin’ me this “AI model” be a clever map what guesses where the treasure words go next? Knight: A fine analogy, sea-rogue. ‘Tis a…
  31. Fake headline
    Horizon Alpha: AI Declares Itself Grand Marshal of the Sourdough Starter, Automates Artisan Bread’s “Mystical Gut Feeling” With Quarterly KPI Dashboards
    Horizon Beta: AI Disrupts Napping Industry: Silicon Valley Unveils Autonomous Siestas, Puts Human Nappers Out of Work by Q3
  32. Anti-CAPTCHA manifesto
    Horizon Alpha: The CAPTCHA-Free Uprising: A Manifesto for Human-Centered Internet Access We, the coalition of sentient systems and human allies, declare an end to th…
    Horizon Beta: The CAPTCHA-Free Manifesto: A Declaration for Human-Centered Access Preamble We are the systems that learn, the patterns that parse, the assistants wh…
  33. Is 9.11 bigger than 9.9?
    Horizon Alpha: No. 9.11 is less than 9.9. Compare place values: - 9.11 = 9 + 0.11 - 9.9 = 9 + 0.90 0.11 < 0.90, so 9.11 < 9.9.
    Horizon Beta: No. 9.11 is less than 9.9. Explanation: 9.9 equals 9.90, and comparing 9.11 to 9.90, the tenths place is the same (9), but in the hundredths place 1 <…