ARCathon 2023

Global AI Competition

Competition Timeline

January 31, 2023
Start
February 13, 2023
Submission Start
December 1, 2023
Submission End
December 22, 2023
Final Standings

World Record Attempt

ARCathon is a worldwide AI competition hosted in Davos, Switzerland. The challenge invites individual participants and representatives from companies and institutions to solve ARC, a task deemed impossible for state-of-the-art AI models. The intelligence test for algorithms was created by François Chollet, a Google Senior Staff Engineer and Co-Host of ARCathon.

 

ARC consists of 1,000 tasks, including 100 secret ones that make up the private test set. The competition aims to develop AI capable of solving these private tasks without prior knowledge, requiring advanced abstraction abilities. While humans typically solve 80% of ARC tasks, current algorithms only reach 30.5% - a world record achieved by aggregating existing algorithms designed to solve ARC. Learn more about ARC on our ARC Page and Chollet's 2019 paper On the Measure of Intelligence.

Running Prize Money

CHF 69’000

Win CHF 1’000 for every percentage point above

Win CHF 1’000 for every percentage point above the current ARC world record:

the current ARC world record:

 = 31%

Go down in History ...

Join the ARCathon 2023 and push the limits of AI! Every percentage point over 31% (Milestone-32) achieved wins CHF 1,000. When a new world record is set, the benchmark is updated. In addition, he first team to reach 42% (Milestone-42) will be honored at the Swiss AI Award and the first three teams reaching Milestone-42 can have their names engraved in a stone in the Swiss Alps.

 

Participate individually or with a team of 2-5 people and win up to CHF 69,000. Both Swiss and international participants are welcome, as well as teams representing different organizations. Need help forming a team or looking to join one? Contact us here.

... and collaborate

You are invited to discuss and share best practices with all other participants on our Discord server (coming soon!). All information about ARC dates and the submission process is available in the ARCathon Guide. In addition, Lab42 provides permanent team support from our experts, including answering technical or administrative questions via the ARCathon email address.

Join the Lab42 Community

The Lab42 Discord server is a place for all AI enthusiasts, challenge participants and experts from different fields around the globe. Collaborate, discuss and exchange insights across disciplines!

Meet the Jury

Meet the Jury

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Grewe

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Grewe

Professor at Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH and ETH

Brigitte
Sommer

Brigitte Sommer

Founder of ADROIT and Jury Member Digital Economy Award

François
Chollet

François Chollet

Creator of Keras, the ARC and Host of the ARCathon

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann

 

Pascal
Kaufmann

Pascal Kaufmann

Neuroscientist and Founder of the Mindfire Foundation

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Grewe

Professor at Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH and ETH Zürich

Brigitte
Sommer

Founder of ADROIT and Jury Member Digital Economy Award

François
Chollet

Creator of Keras, the ARC and Host of the ARCathon

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann

 

Pascal Kaufmann

Neuroscientist and Founder of the Mindfire Foundation

Evaluation Process

The judging process is superintended by a distinguished jury made up of members from the Swiss AI Award Committee, ETH Zurich, and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Submissions is open now. Please read the Submission Rules in the ARCathon Guide to ensure your code can be reviewed by the jury.

 

Teams can submit three algorithms per calendar week in a Docker container, with a deadline of 23:59 CET on December 1, 2023. Scores will be posted on the leaderboard within max. 72 hours of submission.

A Word from our Host

François Chollet, AI Pioneer and Creator of the ARC Dataset

Essential Documents

Images automatically generated by the AI program MidJourney

Team Resources

Submission License & Data Use

Open Source Code under Apache 2.0 license.

 Any purpose, licensed under Apache 2.0.

Submission License & Data Use

Open Source Code under Apache 2.0 license.

 

 Any purpose, licensed under Apache 2.0.

Your Contact

Oliver Schmid

Lead Community Lab42

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