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Stefano Viel

AI Researcher, Tufa Labs

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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)Stefano Viel, Benjamin Crouzier, Michal Tesnar, Jeroen Cottaar, Dries Smit

The Benchmark With No Instructions — ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)

The episode dissects ARC-AGI-3 as a benchmark for interactive goal inference, action efficiency, and abstraction under tight constraints. The Tufa Labs team explains how its winning system evolved from brute-force search toward language-mediated, harnessed reasoning, while arguing that the benchmark tests performance, not true competence.