François Chollet
36 storiesFrançois Chollet is the creator of Keras and a driver of the ARC-AGI benchmark, known for his work on intelligence and reasoning. Recent posts discuss Gemini 4 Argon's scores on ARC-AGI-3, ARC-AGI-2 and ARC-AGI-1, the effectiveness of symbolic learning, why robotics needs causality and discrete reasoning, and LLM post-training experiments with KerasHub, JAX and TPUs. He also critiques AI doomer culture, argues intelligence needs grounding in reality, and highlights conversational AI in education.

François Chollet@fchollet > One could even define intelligence as the efficiency with which one converts experience into competence; by this definition they lag very far behind us
Yes, one could define intelligence in this way, and one would be right. By this metric current AI is appr…

François Chollet@fchollet One of the most worrying risks linked to frontier AI is extreme power concentration.
The only way to avoid extreme power concentration is to ensure we have multiple independent providers of frontier AI models, including open-source options.

François Chollet@fchollet If there really is a high chance of AI leading to the extinction of humanity within years/decades, then the only rational stance towards safety monitoring and research pacing should be stringent, top-down government involvement and universally ratified intern…

François Chollet@fchollet About a year ago, before it was on anyone's radar, we began exploring the idea of a benchmark for open-ended invention. Since then, we've developed several promising directions that will serve as the foundation for ARC 4 and ARC 5.
We're incredibly excited to…

François Chollet@fchollet I hope the proposals by frontier labs to pace AI research stem from a genuine concern for safety and a recognition of the potential risks posed by future models, rather than a strategic effort to consolidate power and permanently solidify the market dominance…

François Chollet@fchollet "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought."
(Albert Szent-Györgyi)
[Quoting @kenneth0stanley]: What we’re witnessing right now in AI for math is a dramatic improvement in objective-driven problem-solving, but…
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