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François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

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Re: François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

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I feel like I'm the only one who isn't convinced getting a high score on the ARC eval test means we have AGI. It's mostly about pattern matching (and some of it ambiguous even for humans what the actual true response aught to be). It's like how in humans there's lots of different 'types' of intelligence, and just overfitting on IQ tests doesn't in my mind convince me a person is actually that smart.

Re: François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

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post #4

I feel like I'm the only one who isn't convinced getting a high score on the ARC eval test means we have AGI. It's mostly about pattern matching (and some of it ambiguous even for humans what the actual true response aught to be). It's like how in humans there's lots of different 'types' of intelligence, and just overfitting on IQ tests doesn't in my mind convince me a person is actually that smart.

Roughly speaking, the job of a medical doctor is to diagnose the patient - and then, after the diagnosis is made, to apply the healing from the book, corresponding to the diagnosis.

The diagnosis is pattern matching (again, roughly). It kinda suggests that a lot of "intelligent" problems are focused on pattern matching, and (relatively straightforward) application of "previous experience". So, pattern matching can bring us a great deal towards AGI.

Re: François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

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post #4

I feel like I'm the only one who isn't convinced getting a high score on the ARC eval test means we have AGI. It's mostly about pattern matching (and some of it ambiguous even for humans what the actual true response aught to be). It's like how in humans there's lots of different 'types' of intelligence, and just overfitting on IQ tests doesn't in my mind convince me a person is actually that smart.

I think the people behind the ARC Prize agree that getting a high score doesn't mean we have AGI. (They already updated the benchmark once to make it harder.) But an AGI should get a similarly high score as humans do. So current models that get very low scores are definitely not AGI, and likely quite far away from it.

Re: François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

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post #4

I feel like I'm the only one who isn't convinced getting a high score on the ARC eval test means we have AGI. It's mostly about pattern matching (and some of it ambiguous even for humans what the actual true response aught to be). It's like how in humans there's lots of different 'types' of intelligence, and just overfitting on IQ tests doesn't in my mind convince me a person is actually that smart.

You're not the only one. ARC-AGI is a laudable effort, but its fundamental premise is indeed debatable:

"We argue that human cognition follows strictly the same pattern as human physical capabilities: both emerged as evolutionary solutions to specific problems in specific evironments" (from page 22 of On the Measure of Intelligence)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.01547

Re: François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

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post #4

I feel like I'm the only one who isn't convinced getting a high score on the ARC eval test means we have AGI. It's mostly about pattern matching (and some of it ambiguous even for humans what the actual true response aught to be). It's like how in humans there's lots of different 'types' of intelligence, and just overfitting on IQ tests doesn't in my mind convince me a person is actually that smart.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

But on a serious note, I don't think Chollet would disagree. ARC is a necessary but not sufficient condition, and he says that, despite the unfortunate attention-grabbing name choice of the benchmark. I like Chollet's view that we will know that AGI is here when we can't come up with new benchmarks that separate humans from AI.

Re: François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

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Has Chollet ever talked about his change of heart regarding AGI? It wasn't that long ago when he was one of the loudest voices decrying even the concept of AGI, let alone us being on the path to creating it. Now he's an advocate and has his own prize dataset? Seems rather convenient to change your tune once hundreds of billions are being thrown at AGI (not that I would blame him).
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