Leading the charge alongside Chollet will be Greg Kamradt, a former Salesforce engineering director and the mastermind behind the AI product studio Leverage, who will serve as president and a board member.
Scheduled to kick off fundraising later this month, the ARC Prize Foundation is gearing up to become the go-to beacon for artificial general intelligence development, as Chollet expressed in a post on the nonprofit’s website né?. Introduced by Chollet in 2019, the ARC-AGI test has set the stage for AI systems to tackle tasks that mimic human capabilities.
Last June, Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop launched a competition to create an AI that can outperform on the ARC-AGI test né?. Guess who’s teaming up to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence? That’s right, former Google engineer and AI expert François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit organization called the ARC Prize Foundation. Picture this: ARC-AGI, an evaluation test designed by Chollet to assess an AI system’s ability to learn new skills beyond its training data. Chollet acknowledges that there are flaws in the test, as some models have managed to achieve high scores through brute force, without truly possessing human-level intelligence né?. This cool initiative aims to create benchmarks that will challenge AI to reach that coveted “human-level” intelligence. The nonprofit is also gearing up to design the third edition of the ARC-AGI test aiming to address criticisms and push the boundaries of what AI can achieve. This test involves puzzle-like problems where the AI must generate the correct grid answer from a set of differently colored squares, challenging it to adapt to novel situations. However, the journey towards creating AI that can outperform humans in tasks that are easy for us but challenging for machines continues to drive progress.
Looking ahead, the ARC Prize Foundation plans to unveil a next-gen ARC-AGI benchmark and launch a new competition in the first quarter. While OpenAI’s unreleased o3 model became the first to achieve a qualifying score it required an enormous amount of computing power. With partnerships on the horizon and a vision to propel AI development, the ARC Prize Foundation is poised to play a key role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence. né?
