We are working towards an artificial scientist that combines the best of humans and machines: It is creative, can think, and learn from any information available at high speed. This technological breakthrough will revolutionize science, demonstrating the potential to address some of the world's biggest challenges, such as advancing science in medicine, engineering, economics, and environmental and social sciences. By doing so, we can tackle diseases, eliminate hunger and wars for resources, and prevent environmental disasters. 

To develop the artificial scientist, we need to radically rethink current approaches to AI and understand the fundamental principles of human-level intelligence. 

To make our research scalable, Mindfire gives everybody the chance to tackle some of the most interesting neuroscience and AI research challenges through embodied AI. We firmly believe that by combining human creativity from different backgrounds with AI, there are few problems that can't be solved.

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"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation." (Jean Piaget, 1929, 1952)

In short: "Intelligence kicks in when one needs to think." 

Underlying Mindfire's approach is a more technical and actionable definition that is applicable for any system, including machines: "The intelligence of a system is a measure of its skill-acquisition efficiency over a scope of tasks, with respect to priors, experience, and generalization difficulty." (François Chollet, 2019) 

We draw inspiration from this definition and transfer core principles of intelligence into new competitions. Chollet's definition of intelligence is at the core of our series of competitions we organize at Lab42: For example, we host ARCathon, also known as the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus(ARC) Competition, a challenge to quantify intelligence. ARC covers well the concept of intelligence, as it measures and tests abilities like reasoning, problem-solving, abstract thinking, few shot learning, and learning from experience. 

Mindfire embraces innovation, creativity, and novel ideas and brings together AI enthusiasts from various fields to advance our understanding and development of artificial intelligence. We achieve this through challenges such as ARCathon, online games, essay competitions, summer schools, and many more formats. Uniting large numbers of creative minds will lead to a better understanding of intelligence and collectively and inevitably drive us toward a scientific revolution.