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Games are where we play, and train our reasoning/problem solving skills. Games contains temporal/spatial problems, paradoxes, misinformation and so on and so on. IF this is genuine, then these systems DO have the capabilities of navigating almost any problem we can throw at it, and we'll have to begin accepting AGI as being reached.
That will likely surprise all those that claimed that AI could never be intelligent - or similar claims.
That said, there are facets of life that are not well projected to games. Social skills are mostly in bigger gameworlds, and kindness/cooperation etc are not prioritized very much. Those types of games can oc be found, but most games are about killing and winning on the dead corpses of the other players, and there are a clear 'edge' of games that tries to expand gaming to include other skill-sets (musik-games, 'girl-games', and many other types).
Sucky violent gaming culture we have, imho..
Anyway, even with low social skills and a few skills missing, we are getting really close to AGI, and many will have to adjust their attitude towards the new situation. It'll be interesting..
It think it's still unwise to talk about these topics in broad terms like AGI and even "intelligence". We still have to pick the capabilities apart to have useful discussions about them. I agree these games are better tests than many benchmarks, but it's also important to note that these solutions use a combination of well-designed deterministic harnesses, as well as LLMs. So it's inaccurate to say that "LLMs have achieved AGI" (not sure if that's what you were getting at). This feels like an important milestone, but we'll have to continue to probe for failure cases in other categories of problems.
Aside from emotional intelligence, experience, embodiment, etc., these ARC-AGI-3 solutions all rely on the sandbox being a safe environment to fail. They iterate through the problem thousands of times before coming to a final solution. Many real-world human problems cannot be re-tried safely or efficiently.
We are getting closer to AGI the way the harmonic series gets closer to infinity.