Zapier Founder Mike Knoop on Automation to AGI

Progress toward AGI has stalled out. Many people don't know or believe this yet. Mike Knoop, Co-Founder at Zapier, talks about the ARC Prize-- a $1M nonprofit competition to fix this by beating François Chollet's 2019 undefeated ARC-AGI eval and open sourcing the solution. The goal is to provide a public measure of progress (or lack of) toward AGI and inspire AI researchers to explore new research ideas again instead of getting sucked into the black hole of LLMs. This talk was originally delivered at Arize:Observe 2024 at Shack 15 in San Francisco on July 11, 2024.

Mike Knoop

Zapier

Mike Knoop co-founded Zapier, where he led all product and engineering before shifting focus to AI R&D in the summer of 2022. At Zapier, he launched Zaps, Transfer, Tables & Interfaces, AI Actions, and Central (AI bots), as well as leading Zapier's OpenAI partnership (ChatGPT plugin and GPT store launch). Mike partnered with notable AI researcher François Chollet to launch ARC Prize, a $1M+ competition re-start and open source AGI progress. Mike is a builder with a background in engineering, math, research, and programming and is passionate about frontier and open source AGI research.

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