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

The first step in achieving AGI is nailing down a concise definition and Mike Knoop, the co-founder and Head of AI at Zapier, believes François Chollet got it right when he defined general intelligence as a system that can efficiently acquire new skills. This week on No Priors, Miked joins Elad to discuss ARC Prize which is a multi-million dollar non-profit public challenge that is looking for someone to beat the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) evaluation.

In this episode, they also get into why Mike thinks LLMs will not get us to AGI, how Zapier is incorporating AI into their products and the power of agents, and why it’s dangerous to regulate AGI before discovering its full potential. 

Show Links:

• About the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus
• Zapier Central
• ARC Prize

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Introduction

(1:10) Redefining AGI

(2:16) Introducing ARC Prize

(3:08) Definition of AGI

(5:14) LLMs and AGI

(8:20) Promising techniques to developing AGI

(11:0) Sentience and intelligence

(13:51) Prize model vs investing

(16:28) Zapier AI innovations

(19:08) Economic value of agents

(21:48) Open source to achieve AGI

(24:20) Regulating AI and AGI