About whether ARC-AGI-3 unfairly demands vision from text-only models.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether ARC-AGI-3 unfairly demands vision from text-only models.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Well, it would be AGI if you could connect a camera to it to solve it, similar to how blind people would be able to solve it if you restored their eyesight. But if the lack of vision is a fundamental limitation of their architecture, then it seems more fair not to call them AGI.