Knoop: AI progress remains constrained by fundamental ideas, not compute
Mike Knoop · Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop · Apr 3, 2025 · at 38:25
Mike Knoop is co-founder of Zapier and NDEA research lab. He discusses why open research and new algorithmic paradigms are necessary to reach AGI.
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“We don't have AGI yet. We don't have the ideas for it yet. We're still our idea constrained even literally today.”
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