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How the ARC Prize is democratizing the race to AGI with Mike Knoop from Zapier

Jun 11, 2024
26:03
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Mike Knoop from Zapier discusses the ARC Prize for AGI, challenges of LLMs for AGI, Zapier's AI integration, and the importance of open source and cautious regulation for AGI development.
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Quick takeaways

  • Efficient skill acquisition is a key aspect of general intelligence according to the ARC Prize evaluation criteria.
  • Focusing on new techniques like program synthesis and neural architecture search can break the limitations of current AI paradigms.

Deep dives

Mike Noop's Journey into AGI and Launching the Arc Prizes

Mike Noop, the co-founder of Zapier, discusses his transition from building AI at the application layer for Zapier to exploring AGI research. Noting a stall in AGI progress due to the wrong consensus definition, he introduces the Arc Prizes competition aimed at re-accelerating AGI development. The ArcAGI eval sets a standard for true AGI measurements, emphasizing efficient acquisition of new skills as a hallmark of general intelligence.

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