Well, that's true inasmuch as every other prediction did far worse. Saying ARC did the best is passing a low bar when your competition is people like Gary Marcu

Well, that's true inasmuch as every other prediction did far worse. Saying ARC did the best is passing a low bar when your competition is people like Gary Marcus or HNers saying 'yeah but no scaled-up GPT-3 could ever write a whole program'... But since ARC was from the start clearly a vision task - most of these transforms or rules make no sense without a visual geometric prior - it wasn't that convincing, and we see plenty of progress with LLMs.