What François Chollet thinks about reinforcement learning
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what François Chollet has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingCurrent models are unsafe because they are not smart enough, not because they are too smart.
Their wordsCurrent models are unsafe not because they're too smart, but because they take goals too literally or take nonsensical shortcuts to achieve these goals, i.e. they're RL-fried. They lack common sense. They don't do the right thing in the face of ambiguity. Basically, they're not smart enough.