What François Chollet thinks about AGI
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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5 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what François Chollet has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsHumanity has not yet created a conscious computer program, and there are no signs we are close to doing so.
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsThe purpose of the AI industry should be to produce tools that, in the human hand, will improve human prosperity and welfare. It should not be to create a "successor species" to the human race.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe narrative around why building AGI was a good idea has always been about invention -- "it will cure cancer", "it will solve fusion energy", etc.
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Their wordsSo I would not "declare AGI" until we have AI that is, at last, capable of invention -- conceptual breakthroughs, novel insights, new real-world technology, etc.
- 14 months earlier
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Their wordsWe expect that building and evaluating AI systems capable of this kind of rapid world model induction will be critical for achieving robust, general AI capable of functioning effectively in the complex and fast-changing real world, and especially in human worlds - the environments that human beings have evolved in, created, and are continually changing and re-creating.
↗Assessing Adaptive World Models in Machines with Novel Games (with 13 co-authors)arxiv.org All 5 from this paper