What François Chollet thinks about AGI
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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4 dated positions, 2024 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 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.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIncredible watering down -- the Singularity is now redefined to mean "the rate of new firm creation has increased somewhat" Vernor Vinge described the Singularity as an event horizon past which everything (e.g. what happens tomorrow) becomes entirely unimaginable and unpredictable to human understanding
- 20 months earlier
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Their wordsPassing ARC-AGI does not equate to achieving AGI, and, as a matter of fact, I don't think o3 is AGI yet. o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences with human intelligence.
↗OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pubarcprize.org