No Priors Ep. 68 | With Zapier Co-Founder and Head of AI Mike Knoop

The first step in achieving AGI is nailing down a concise definition and Mike Knoop, the co-founder and Head of AI at Zapier, believes François Chollet got it right when he defined general intelligence as a system that can efficiently acquire new skills. This week on No Priors, Mike joins Elad to discuss Arc Prize which is a multi-million dollar non-profit public challenge that is looking for someone to beat the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) evaluation. In this episode, they also get into why Mike thinks LLMs will not get us to AGI, how Zapier is incorporating AI into their products and the power of agents, and why it’s dangerous to regulate AGI before discovering its full potential. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @mikeknoop Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 1:10 Redefining AGI 2:16 Introducing ARC Prize 3:08 Definition of AGI 5:14 LLMs and AGI 8:20 Promising techniques to developing AGI 11:0 Sentience and intelligence 13:51 Prize model vs investing 16:28 Zapier AI innovations 19:08 Economic value of agents 21:48 Open source to achieve AGI 24:20 Regulating AI and AGI