Comment by davidclark

7 days ago

In the video, François Chollet, creator of the ARC benchmarks, says that beating ARC does not equate to AGI. He specifically says they will be able to be beaten without AGI.

He only says this because otherwise he would have to say that

- OpenAI's o3 counts as "AGI" when it did unexpectedly beat the ARC-AGI benchmark or

- Explicitly admit that he was wrong when assuming that ARC-AGI would test for AGI

  • FWIW the original ARC was published in 2019, just after GPT-2 but a while before GPT-3. I work in the field, I think that discussing AGI seriously is actually kind of a recent thing (I'm not sure I ever heard the term 'AGI' until a few years ago). I'm not saying I know he didn't feel that, but he doesn't talk in such terms in the original paper.