PauseAI•16mo ago

AGI Test-Beating

I asked GPT-o1 to refine a proposal I made for an AGI Test-Beating Agent. Below is the output.

The primary goal of this project is to demonstrate the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by developing an AI agent capable of systematically utilizing available tools and resources to successfully pass challenging tests that skeptics believe are beyond the reach of current AI systems. A prime example of such a test is the https://arcprize.org/ which assesses an AI's ability to perform tasks requiring abstract reasoning and generalization.

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Design Overview

Core Components
- Advanced Multimodal Model: Utilize the latest available frontier models (e.g., the most recent versions of Gemini, Claude, or GPT) as the foundational AI engine.
- Self-Prompting and Planning: Incorporate agentic capabilities that allow the AI to generate its own prompts, devise strategic plans, and instantiate auxiliary agents with similar architectures to delegate tasks.

Testing AGI Capabilities

Learning Phase
- Task Familiarization: Study examples of the types of tasks to be tested, understanding the underlying principles and patterns.
- Resource Exploration: Research and identify tools, libraries, or frameworks that could be beneficial in solving the given tasks.
Development Phase
- Tool Creation: Invest time in developing custom tools or enhancing existing ones to address specific challenges encountered during task-solving.
- Model Training: If necessary, train specialized machine learning models to handle tasks that require data-driven approaches.
Execution Phase
- Multiple Attempts: Make numerous attempts at completing tasks, using each as a learning opportunity to improve methods and tools.
- Performance Optimization: Analyze results to optimize algorithms and strategies for better efficiency and accuracy.

Rest of the design component is described in subsequent posts.

ARC Prize

ARC Prize is a $1,000,000+ nonprofit, public competition to beat and open source a solution to the ARC-AGI benchmark.

full-greenOP•9/23/24, 9:33 PM

Continued output from GPT: Refined Proposal for an AGI Test-Beating Agent

Design Overview (continued)

**Core Components**
**Agentic Abilities**
- Tool Utilization
  - Online Software Tools: Access and employ various online tools to complete tasks, including deploying solutions on cloud services and performing web searches.
  - Local Software Tools: Leverage installed software on local machines to enhance task-solving capabilities.
- Software Development
  - Code Generation: Write and execute custom software, including scripts and applications that can aid in task completion.
  - Machine Learning Development: Develop and train machine learning models (e.g., deep neural networks) on large datasets if required for complex tasks.
- Communication
  - Human Interaction: Authorized to interact with people through standard online communication channels such as email, social media, or content postings, while adhering to ethical guidelines.
- Iteration and Improvement
  - Feedback Loop: Continuously iterate on solutions by learning from failed attempts and refining approaches for better performance in subsequent tries.

full-greenOP•9/23/24, 9:36 PM

Constraints

Prohibited Actions
- Direct Human Assistance: The agent must not solicit direct help from humans when attempting to complete the AGI test tasks.
- Unethical Practices: Activities such as hacking into systems to obtain answers are strictly forbidden and will invalidate test results.

full-greenOP•9/23/24, 9:38 PM

Plausible Approach for Passing the ARC Challenge

**Understanding the ARC Challenge**
- Task Analysis: The agent begins by analyzing sample ARC tasks to comprehend the types of abstract reasoning required, such as pattern recognition, sequence prediction, and rule induction.
- Identifying Key Skills: Determines the essential cognitive abilities needed, like visual perception, logical reasoning, and adaptability.
**Resource Utilization**
- Web Research: Searches for existing algorithms and methodologies related to abstract reasoning and problem-solving in AI.
- Tool Acquisition: Finds and incorporates libraries or software tools that assist in image processing, pattern detection, and symbolic reasoning.
**Developing Custom Solutions**
- Algorithm Design: Writes custom code to implement algorithms capable of interpreting and solving ARC tasks, such as graph traversal, constraint satisfaction, or generative models.
- Machine Learning Models: If suitable, trains models on generated datasets that mimic ARC tasks to improve generalization capabilities.
**Iterative Testing and Improvement**
- Simulation Environment: Creates a testing framework to simulate ARC tasks and evaluate performance iteratively.
- Error Analysis: After each attempt, analyzes failures to identify weaknesses or gaps in understanding.
- Strategy Refinement: Adjusts approaches based on insights gained, such as tweaking algorithms or retraining models with additional data.
**Leveraging Auxiliary Agents**
- Task Delegation: Instantiates co-agents to handle sub-tasks, like data preprocessing, hypothesis generation, or result validation.
- Collaborative Problem-Solving: Enables communication between agents to share findings and converge on optimal solutions.

full-greenOP•9/23/24, 9:38 PM

Ethical Communication
- Content Sharing: Posts findings or queries on public forums to gather indirect insights without soliciting direct answers to test tasks.
- Knowledge Integration: Incorporates publicly available information to enhance understanding and solution strategies.

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Conclusion

By systematically utilizing advanced AI models, developing custom tools, and employing iterative improvement strategies, the agent can enhance its problem-solving capabilities to tackle the abstract reasoning tasks presented in the ARC Challenge. This approach not only aims to pass the tests but also to demonstrate the proximity of achieving true AGI, highlighting the need for ongoing discussions about the implications and ethical considerations of such advancements.

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Recommendations for Further Refinement

Incorporate Explainability
- Transparent Reasoning: Ensure the agent can explain its reasoning process for each solution, enhancing trust and facilitating debugging.
Enhance Generalization
- Diverse Training: Expose the agent to a wide variety of tasks beyond the ARC examples to improve its ability to generalize from limited data.
Implement Safeguards
- Ethical Guidelines: Embed ethical considerations into the agent's decision-making processes to prevent undesirable behaviors.
Performance Metrics
- Benchmarking: Establish clear metrics to evaluate the agent's performance over time, such as success rates, efficiency, and learning speed.

By focusing on these areas, the project can create a robust and responsible AI agent capable of meeting and exceeding the challenges posed by tasks like the ARC Challenge.

full-greenOP•9/24/24, 11:26 AM

To be clear, the GPT-o1 version of the proposal is not ready and it is not "safe" to build and deploy. However I belive that in a controlled AI-safety research setup where human researchers are put as gate keepers on all communications with the external word weather it is an email, or a the deployment of a cloud resource with AI generated code. The main point of this is to understand if the set of state of the art frontier AI systems and tools of compute and communication put together in such an Agentic system with wide authorizations seems to be able to iterateively improve its performance significantly on really hard tasks under controlled circumstances. If so we have a huge red flag. Because this would indicate that under uncontrolled circumstances such systems would be likely able to do dangerous hard tasks either in "rouge autonomous mode", or initiated by bad human actors.

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