person
Mike Knoop
Co-founder ARC Prize; ex-Zapier
Co-founder of Zapier and, with François Chollet, of the 'ARC Prize', a public competition built around the ARC-AGI benchmark to reward systems that demonstrate genuine generalization rather than scaled pattern matching.
current Co-founder, ARC Prize
past Co-founder, Zapier
Strategy positions
AI skepticmixed
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues frontier LLM benchmarks have been collapsing into 'memorization plus retrieval' and that ARC-AGI shows current systems are not on a smooth path to general intelligence.
Existing frontier models score under 50% on ARC-AGI puzzles that are easy for humans. The gap reveals what 'general intelligence' really demands beyond scale.
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