Dries Smit
@DriesSmit1
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Researcher at Tufa Labs, working on fundamental AI research. https://t.co/2HNB9DxLWj
Joined October 2018
Congrats to Jack Cole and the team on achieving third place in ARC-AGI-2!🥳 Great work from @MindsAI_Jack for driving this effort. Thanks to @arcprize for organising another exciting competition this year. We're looking forward to the ARC-AGI-3 competition next year at @tufalabs.
@jm_alexia @PourcelJulien @cedcolas @pyoudeyer @LiaoIsaac91893 @JFPuget @dvhrtm @JDisselh ARC Prize 2025 / Top Score Winner Third Place / MindsAI @ Tufa Labs @MindsAI_Jack, @DriesSmit1, @MohamedOsmanML, @bayesilicon Interview:
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We get transfered SO MANY STUFF out of the box from our ancestors, its ridiculous. My favorite example is that empirically, we seem to have "snake detection module" hard-wired to our brain (that detects snake faster than other things) We are, in so many ways, literally
people forget about the Baldwin effect when reasoning about the difference between evolution and learning when you recapitulate learning that your ancestors did, when you learn to see, walk, and speak in an unbroken line for thousands of generations, it gets easier each time
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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares wrote a book about superintelligence, called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. It was released last week. The book is now a New York Times bestseller. It is endorsed by leading scientists across many fields, including a "godfather of AI" and
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Thanks Jack! For anyone who is interested, feel free to give it a read.
Great writeup by Dr. Dries Smit about his winning approach to the ARC 3 Preview competition. @DriesSmit1
@arcprize
https://t.co/me0IjtohSd
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I’m thrilled to share that we won 1st place in the ARC-AGI 3 Agent Preview competition! 🏆🎉 Huge thanks to @ARCPrize and @gregkamradt for organising such an exciting and tense contest. Looking forward to seeing everyone on the Kaggle leaderboard in 2026🚀 @MindsAI_Jack @tufalabs
Learning #3: The collective intelligence of the community is great. We hosted a Agent Preview Competition and awarded prizes to @DriesSmit1 @MindsAI_Jack and Will Dick https://t.co/GQlWdUJXrc
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Yesterday Ethereum turned 10. Today, lean Ethereum is unveiled as a vision—and personal mission—for the next 10 years. We stand at the dawn of a new era. Millions of TPS. Quantum adversaries. How does Ethereum marry extreme performance with uncompromising security and
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The path to solving hunger, disease and poverty is AI and robotics
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@robertwiblin Mentioned in this incredible video from @robertskmiles
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the goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home
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Should you xeet about +0.14 on the ARC-AGI-2 leaderboard? Probably not, but it's a hard benchmark! Maybe more significant gains soon. We are cooking MindsAI @tufalabs. Try it with your best new ideas. @arcprize. @DriesSmit1 @tufaben @bayesilicon @MohamedOsmanML
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Jeff Clune says early OpenAI felt like spotting alien intelligence on approach. “It's like you're an astronomer.. and a handful of people have the expertise to say, aliens are on the way.” He knew they were on their way. But everything around him still looked normal. What
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@DavidSHolz Something like this feels quite likely. That we’re a random ant colony deep inside the Amazon forest crawling around like “where is everyone???”. The depth of our explored tech tree is so shallow compared to what feels possible. We’re probably really, really irrelevant.
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“The challenge that AI poses is the greatest challenge of humanity ever. Overcoming it will also bring the greatest reward.” ~ Ilya Sutskever
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real-time proving Q&A :) What is it? ELI12. A: An army of nerds just cracked a sci-fi problem: proving every Ethereum mainnet block in real time. These zk proofs are exponentially cheaper to verify than re-executing transactions—just a few milliseconds, no matter the gas used.
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Excited to advance our lead and SoTA score on ARC-AGI-2 (@arcprize) by 3 points to 15.28. @DriesSmit1 @MohamedOsmanML @bayesilicon @GregKamradt @tufalabs
https://t.co/GCJvSlO0hm
kaggle.com
Create an AI capable of novel reasoning
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Seems like a good time for an update on a graph from my 2015 post on AI.
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Fantastic work by @tobyrsimonds @tufalabs in producing a SoTA 7B model that beats both foundation models and human experts on two complex rocket design tasks. Incredible work!
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By default, AI will replace all of us in the economy, creating a new social contract where powerful actors won't have to care about regular people. @LRudL_ and I have written an essay series called The Intelligence Curse in which we outline the problem and how to solve it đź§µ
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