Reasoning LLMs getting better at ARC-AGI prove that they are able to solve tasks that are symbolic without putting in specific search on the CPU (which is the brute force method).

It's never ,,pure scaling'' (just running the same algorithm on more hardware), but there's continues improvement on how to be even more algorithmically efficient (and algorithmic scaling is faster than hardware scaling).

>Reasoning LLMs getting better at ARC-AGI prove...

Even if true, it wouldn't be dispositive WRT my question, but...

1. Strictly speaking, LLMs themselves aren't capable of reasoning, by definition. Without external techniques, they are only capable of simulating reasoning, and so exhibiting reasoning-like behavior.

2. It's known that at least some up to most progress on the test has been the result of specific tuning for the test ("cheating") versus any emergent AGI. [0]

>It's never "pure scaling"

Oh, but it was. There's absolutely been a focus on pure scaling as the proposal for significant progress and some prominent proponents have had to walk back their expectations/claims.

I think there's a little bit of revisionism going on, as they want past claims to be quickly forgotten. The interesting part is that the scaling mantra is starting anew with the new reasoning techniques.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KHCyituifsHFbZoAC/arc-agi-is...