ARC-AGI-4 Will Benchmark "Autonomous Open-Ended Innovation" — But How Do You Measure Open-Endedness?
jeffclune · x · 2026-09-16
A thread by @amahury0, amplified by open-endedness researcher Jeff Clune, questions ARC Prize's plan for ARC-AGI-4 to benchmark "autonomous open-ended innovation": open-endedness has been a central problem in Artificial Life for decades — how do you benchmark a property whose whole point is continuous novelty and never-ending invention?
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