Comment by sgt101
2 hours ago
Does it learn?
Does it experience?
Can it connect with other agents, understand them, come to empathise with them and find a way to work with them better?
The answer is no to all of these, and there are other problems as well. Yes, this model is trained to use a domain specific language to reason and plan over puzzle problems, and so it's programmers have cracked arc-agi-3 and that's a great achievement, but there is an asymmetry here. The arc team are well funded but are charged with providing a target for the vast ocean of funding, compute and talent everywhere else.
Most importantly, arc-agi-3 and the other benchmarks are all verifiable. The model can check if it's succeeded or not. They are not A* of course, but long horizon problems where you have to overcome minima to get the solution are not alien to AI either.
Why does it need to empathise with something that doesn't have feelings in the first place? It clearly can learn from context. And experience? Again I don't see why it needs to feel anything.