Alessandro Palmarini, a post-baccalaureate researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, delves into the intriguing world of AI skill acquisition. He discusses his groundbreaking concept of "dream decompiling" inspired by the DreamCoder system, aiming to tackle the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) challenge. Topics include the differences between AI and human skill acquisition, the role of gaming in AI development, and innovative program synthesis techniques. Palmarini also examines the balance between computational and data efficiency in creating adaptive AI systems.