ARC is trying to isolate a unitary intelligence signal, so it strips away coordination, specialization, and division of labor. But that also means it removes one of the dominant mechanisms by which intelligence actually scales in the real world. Their view on intelligence implicitly treats redundancy as necessary - one agent must do them all - and treats efficiency as something achieved internally rather than through restructuring the system. At the very least they should create environments that can help an agent compound intelligence, to self amplify, support itself, that is not happening in ARC.

Anyone wondered if ARC is a measure of intelligence or just a collection of hand picked tasks? was there a proof they encode anything meaningful about intelligence in such short tasks in miniature environments? One shot intelligence?