Technical Trigger
The technical trigger behind this development is the release of the ‘Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy’ paper, which presents a cognitive framework for understanding AI capabilities. This framework is based on decades of research from psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.
Developer / Implementation Hook
Developers and technical creators can participate in the Kaggle hackathon, ‘Measuring progress toward AGI: Cognitive abilities,’ which encourages the community to design evaluations for five cognitive abilities: learning, metacognition, attention, executive functions, and social cognition. Participants can use Kaggle’s Community Benchmarks platform to build and test their evaluations against a lineup of frontier models.
The Structural Shift
The paradigm change represented by this development is the shift from general AI evaluation protocols to a more structured and cognitive-based approach, enabling more accurate assessments of AI systems.
Early Warning — Act Before Mainstream
To act on this change, developers can: 1. Review the ‘Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy’ paper to understand the proposed cognitive framework. 2. Participate in the Kaggle hackathon to design evaluations for the five cognitive abilities. 3. Utilize Kaggle’s Community Benchmarks platform to build and test evaluations against frontier models.