Comment by irthomasthomas
8 hours ago
A model that can't beat gemini flash 3.8 on deepSWE is not AGI. I would not be surprised if ARC skills don't carry over to real tasks. In that case, training for ARC could even hurt real world performance. I have't looked in a while, but I wonder if there has been any research testing ARCs predictive power?
I feel like I'm completely missing something with ARC-AGI. The tasks are so limited in scale and very black and white, which do not at all map to real-life challenges.
I do think it's impressive that LLMs can reliably solve them, and I recognize LLMs are getting much better at navigating more ambiguous and expansive tasks. But I'm not impressed by any person who can solve ARC-AGIs, and nor would I even look down on a person who couldn't solve them all. I'd certainly never consider ARC-AGI results when deciding whether to hire someone.