Francois Chollet

Instead, what they have is they have in their connectome

in their genes, hard-coded programs, behavioral programs that map some stimuli to appropriate response.

And they can actually navigate their lives, their environment in a way that's very evolutionary fits that way without needing to learn anything.

And while if our environment was static enough, predictable enough, what would have happened is that evolution would have found the perfect behavioral program, a hard-coded static behavioral program would have

written it into our genes, we would have a hard-coded brain connectome, and that's what we would be running on.

But no, that's not what happened.

Instead, we have general intelligence.

So we are born with extremely little knowledge about the world, but we are born with the ability to learn very efficiently and to adapt in the face of things that we've never seen before.

And that's what makes us unique.

And that's what is really, really challenging to recreate in machines.

I want to rabbit hole on that a little bit.

But before I do that,

Sure.

So one arc puzzle, it looks kind of like an IQ test puzzle.

You've got a number of demonstration input-output pairs.

So one pair is made of two grids.

So one grid shows you an input and the second grid shows you what you should produce as a response to that input.

And you get a couple pairs like this to demonstrate the nature of the task, to demonstrate what you're supposed to do with your inputs.

and then you get a new test input and your job is to produce the corresponding test output.

You look at the demonstration pairs and from that you figure out what you're supposed to do and you show that you've understood it on this new test pair.