ARC-AGI-4 revives Jeff Clune's call: preserve diverse stepping stones, not one fixed target
jeffclune · x · 2026-09-16
The ARC-AGI-4 announcement reminded many of Jeff Clune's keynote at this year's ALife Conference. His core message: if you want systems that keep innovating, stop optimizing a single fixed target and start preserving diverse stepping stones.
This open-endedness thesis — diversity over single-objective optimization — is being re-examined in light of where ARC-AGI benchmarks are heading, sparking discussion on general-intelligence evaluation and open-ended innovation.
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