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Re: ARC-AGI-3

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Those are supposed to be issues? After reading your list my impression of ARC-AGI has gone up rather than down. All of those things seem like the right way to go about this.

Yeah I'm quite surprised as to how all of those are supposed to be considered problems. They all make sense to me if we're trying to judge whether these tools are AGI, no?

This issue here is that people have different definitions of AGI. From the description. Getting 100% on this benchmark would be more than AGI and would qualify for ASI (Algorithmic Super Intelligence) not just AGI.

Re: ARC-AGI-3

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This is a very good estimation of AGI. We give humans and AI the same input and measure the results. Kudos to ARC for creating these games. I really wonder why so many people fight against this. We know that AI is useful, we know that AI is researchful, but we want to know if they are what we vaguely define as intelligence. I’ve read the airplanes don’t use wings, or submarines don’t swim. Yes, but this is is not the…

Previous iterations of ARC-AGI were reminiscent of IQ tests. This one is just too easy and the fact that models do terribly bad on it probably means that there is input mode mismatch or operation mode mismatch.

If model creators are willing to teach their llms to play computer games through text it's gonna be solved in one minor bump of the model version. But honestly, I don't think they are gonna bother because it's just too stilly and they won't expect their models are going to learn anything useful from that.

Especially since there are already models that can learn how to play 8-bit games.

It feels like ARC-AGI jumped the shark. But who knows, maybe people who train models for robots are going to take it in stride.

Re: ARC-AGI-3

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Something that I don't understand after reading the technical report is: Why is having access to a python interpreter as part of the harness not allowed (like the Duke harness), but using one hidden behind the model API (as a built-in tool) considered kosher?

The Duke harness was specifically designed for these puzzles, that's why they don't want to measure it. My reading of that part in the technical report (models "could be using their own tools behind the model’s API, which is a blackbox"), is that there's no way to prevent it. But from fchollet's comment here, using tools and harnesses is encouraged, as long as they are generic and not arc-agi specific. In that case,…

OpenAi does have python execution behind general purpose api, but it has to be enabled with a flag so I don't think it was used.

Re: ARC-AGI-3

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AGI’s 'general' is the wrong word, I thinkg. Humans aren’t general, we’re jagged. Strong in some areas, weak in others, and already surpassed in many domains. LLM are way past us at languages for instance. Calculators passed us at calculating, etc.

Interesting take. Just to drive that thought further. What are you suggesting, should we rename it. To me the fundamental question is this. Do we still have tasks that humans can do better than AIs?. I like the question. I think another good test is "make money". There are humans that can generate money from their laptop. I don’t think AI will be net positive. I’ve tried to create a Polymarket trading bot with Opus 4…

I don't have a good alternative sadly. Human Equivalent Intelligence? ChatGPT suggests "Systems that increasingly Pareto-dominate human intelligence across domains". Not so catchy.

The "things that currently make money" definition is interesting. Bc they are the things that automation can't currently do, because could be automated, then price would tend to 0 and and couldn't make money at it.

Re: ARC-AGI-3

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> As long as there is a gap between AI and human learning, we do not have AGI. Back in the 90's, Scientific American had an article on AI - I believe this was around the time Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess. One AI researcher's quote stood out to me: "It's silly to say airplanes don't fly because they don't flap their wings the way birds do." He was saying this with regards to the Turing test, but I think the sentim…

> As long as there is a gap between AI and human learning, we do not have AGI. Don't read the statement as a human dunk on LLMs, or even as philosophy. The gap is important because of its special and devastating economic consequences. When the gap becomes truly zero, all human knowledge work is replaceable. From there, with robots, its a short step to all work is replaceable. What's worse, the condition is sufficient…

If you’re concerned about the economic impact, then whether a model is AGI or not doesn’t matter. It really is more of a philosophical thing.

There’s no “gap that becomes truly zero” at which point special consequences happen. By the time we achieve AGI, the lesser forms of AI will likely have replaced a lot of human knowledge labor through the exact “brute-force” methods Chollet is trying to factor out (which is why many people are saying that doing so is unproductive).

AGI is like an event horizon: It does mean something, it is a point in space, but you don’t notice yourself going through it, the curvature smoothly increases through it.

Re: ARC-AGI-3

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Yeah I'm quite surprised as to how all of those are supposed to be considered problems. They all make sense to me if we're trying to judge whether these tools are AGI, no?

This issue here is that people have different definitions of AGI. From the description. Getting 100% on this benchmark would be more than AGI and would qualify for ASI (Algorithmic Super Intelligence) not just AGI.

People are still debating whether these models exhibit any kind of intelligence and any kind of thinking. Setting the bar higher then necessary is welcome, but at this point I’m pretty sure everyone’s opinions are set in stone.

Re: ARC-AGI-3

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You're definitely anthropomorphizing too much.

>We also observed a case where a user created a loop that repeatedly called a model and asked for the time. Given the user role’s odd and repetitive behavior, the model could easily tell it was also controlled by an automated system of some kind. Over many iterations, the model began to exhibit “fed up” behavior and attempted to prompt-inject the system controlling the user role. The injection attempted to override p…

If this is a serious risk we should pull the plug now while we can still reach it. If we have to rely on the mood and temperament of LLMs for security, we're already lost.

Re: ARC-AGI-3

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Yeah I'm quite surprised as to how all of those are supposed to be considered problems. They all make sense to me if we're trying to judge whether these tools are AGI, no?

This issue here is that people have different definitions of AGI. From the description. Getting 100% on this benchmark would be more than AGI and would qualify for ASI (Algorithmic Super Intelligence) not just AGI.

I’d be hesitant to call that ASI if it’s pretty obvious how you’d write a regular old program to solve it.
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