My initial impression: it's very impressive and very exciting.
My skeptical impression: it's complete hubris to conflate ARC or any benchmark with truly general intelligence.
I know my skepticism here is identical to moving goalposts. More and more I am shifting my personal understanding of general intelligence as a phenomenon we will only ever be able to identify with the benefit of substantial retrospect.
As it is with any sufficiently complex program, if you could discern the result beforehand, you wouldn't have had to execute the program in the first place.
I'm not trying to be a downer on the 12th day of Christmas. Perhaps because my first instinct is childlike excitement, I'm trying to temper it with a little reason.
My skeptical impression: it's complete hubris to conflate ARC or any benchmark with truly general intelligence.
I know my skepticism here is identical to moving goalposts. More and more I am shifting my personal understanding of general intelligence as a phenomenon we will only ever be able to identify with the benefit of substantial retrospect.
As it is with any sufficiently complex program, if you could discern the result beforehand, you wouldn't have had to execute the program in the first place.
I'm not trying to be a downer on the 12th day of Christmas. Perhaps because my first instinct is childlike excitement, I'm trying to temper it with a little reason.