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To better understand the implications of the ARC AGI, consider the analogy of training a dog to navigate obstacle courses. If a dog is trained solely on a few predefined courses, it may excel in those scenarios but falter in new, unfamiliar challenges. This mirrors the phenomenon of overfitting in AI, where models perform exceptionally on familiar datasets while struggling with novel inputs. The goal is not just for the AI to memorize but to adapt, making it crucial to develop methods that truly measure generalization.