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Community Newsletter 5
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Chollet at AGI-24 + Zuck, llamas, and ARC at Llamathon
Hello, AGI seekers.
There are 86 days left in this year's competition. MindsAI still tops the leaderboard at 43%. Are you on track to submit your solution?
François Chollet spoke at the AGI-24 conference about defining, measuring, and building AGI.
Watch: YouTube
Lots of other interesting talks from the conference - @graum in discord mentioned Alexander Ororbia's talk on predictive coding and biomimetic intelligence.
If you discover a new ARC-related insight here or elsewhere, please share it with the community on discord!
Shout out to Vladimir Iglovikov and team for jamming on ARC Prize solutions with Llama models at the South Park Commons Llamathon event which featured real-live llamas (and real-live Zuck.)
What's happened in the past few weeks? Let's dive in.
Content
On the "ARC-AGI" $1 Million Reasoning Challenge
Award-winning author and Santa Fe Institute professor Melanie Mitchell dives into the world of ARC Prize and what it all means.
Read: Substack
Automation to AGI
Catch Mike Knoop's talk at the Arize AI Observe Conference detailing his AI journey from Zapier to ARC Prize.
Watch: YouTube
Putting AI (and Podcast Hosts) to the Test
Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley give a hilarious live demo of ARC-AGI on the AI Fix Podcast.
Listen: YouTube, Spotify, Apple
LLMs Are a Dead End to AGI
It's 2030, and AGI is finally here. In one small way, our journey to AGI can be traced back to a $1 million contest that challenged the AI status quo back in 2024.
Read: Freethink
LLMs Have Stalled the Progress of AGI
While LLMs are often seen as overhyped in research circles, they are also considered by some as a major roadblock to achieving AGI.
Read: Analytics India Magazine
Resources
Here are a few resources that were shared in the community recently. For more helpful sources, check out the resources on the official site.
- Yannic Kilcher's ARC-community wiki list of concepts
- ConceptARC from victorvikram
- Public leaderboard SotA solution code
- [Paper] ARCLE (ARC Learning Environment for Reinforcement Learning)
- ARC Tasks Solver Shape Stable Kaggle post by @Minseo
- Program Synthesis with LLMs Kaggle post by @MarcoForelli
Team Up
Jump into the #team-formation channel on Discord to connect with like-minded peers in defeating ARC-AGI.
- @jonask is ready to talk automata.
- @mooam_ is a Google research engineer looking to form/join a small team.
- @cristianoc is focused on DSL/coding to go after a narrow subset of the problem before zooming back out.
- @drdoggo and @Vivek are working with neurosymbolic architectures.
- @Minseo is looking for people working on ML (NN) approaches.
Daily Puzzle
Are you getting your daily dose of ARC-AGI by playing the ARC Prize Daily Puzzle?!
Here's one of our favorites since the last newsletter. Can you solve it?
We appreciate you being a part of this incredible community of brilliant minds. Stay tuned for more helpful content around solution approaches.
As always, let us know if there's any way we can support you in your quest to unlock the secrets of AGI. Good luck!
Bryan
ARC Prize Team
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