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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2025 Decemberkrackers

About whether current models learn ARC-AGI-3 game rules like humans do.

Arc-Agi 3 is coming soon, I'm very excited for that because it's a true test of multimodality, spatial reasoning, and goal planning. I think there was some preliminary post somewhere that did show that current models basically try to brute-force their way through and don't actually "learn the rules of the game" as efficiently as humans do.

An AI learns the rules of ARC-AGI-3 games as efficiently as humans, without brute-forcing.

Has this happened?

Yes 23 (22%)Not sure 61 (59%)No 20 (19%)

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