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Over the last few months, ARC has released a number of pieces of research. While some of these can be independently motivated, there is also a more unified research vision behind them. The purpose of this post is to try to convey some of that vision and how our individual pieces of research fit into it.

Thanks to Ryan Greenblatt, Victor Lecomte, Eric Neyman, Jeff Wu and Mark Xu for helpful comments.

A bird's eye view

To begin, we will take a "bird's eye" view of ARC's research.[1] As we "zoom in", more nodes will become visible and we will explain the new nodes.

An interactive version of the [...]

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Outline:

(00:43) A birds eye view

(01:00) Zoom level 1

(02:18) Zoom level 2

(03:44) Zoom level 3

(04:56) Zoom level 4

(07:14) How ARCs research fits into this picture

(07:43) Further subproblems

(10:23) Conclusion

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

The original text contained 3 images which were described by AI.

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First published:
October 23rd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ztokaf9harKTmRcn4/a-bird-s-eye-view-of-arc-s-research

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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