“LLMs won’t lead to AGI - Francois Chollet” by tobycrisford

This is a link post. I found this interview with Francois Chollet fascinating, and would be curious to hear what other people make of it. I think it is impressive that he's managed to devise a benchmark of tasks which are mostly pretty easy for most humans, but which LLMs have so far not been able to make much progress with. If you don't have time to watch the video, then I think these tweets of his sum up his views quite well: The point of general intelligence is to make it possible to deal with novelty and uncertainty, which is what our lives are made of. Intelligence is the ability to improvise and adapt in the face of situations you weren't prepared for (either by your evolutionary history or by your past experience) -- to efficiently acquire skills at novel tasks, on the fly. Meanwhile what the AI of [...] --- First published: June 11th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/um7tDLrjLWKG58vYa/llms-won-t-lead-to-agi-francois-chollet --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.