Google DeepMind Releases AGI Cognitive Taxonomy Paper + $200K Kaggle Hackathon

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Google DeepMind published 'Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy,' a framework grounding AGI evaluation in cognitive science rather than task-specific benchmarks, on March 17. Alongside the paper, they launched a Kaggle hackathon asking the community to build evaluations for key cognitive capabilities, with a $200,000 prize pool. The 170-comment HN thread reflects genuine practitioner debate about whether cognitive-science framing actually advances evaluation — or just rebrands the same benchmark treadmill.