Francois Chollet

This day that you're living right now is different in some important ways from every day you've lived before.

It's also different from any day ever lived by any of your ancestors.

And still, you're capable of being functional, right?

How is that possible?

That's a great question.

There is extensive evidence that different intelligences are mostly genetic in nature.

Meaning that if you take someone who is not very intelligent, there is no amount of training data you can expose that person to that would make them become Einstein.

And this kind of points to the fact that you really need a better architecture.

You need a better algorithm.

And more training data is not in fact all you need.

I think I agree with that.

Sure.

You know, I think benchmarks that gain traction in the research community are benchmarks that are already fairly tractable.

Because the dynamic that you see is that some research group is going to make some initial breakthrough, and then this is going to catch the attention of everyone else.

And so you're going to get follow-up papers with people trying to beat the first team and so on.

And for ARC, this has not really happened because ARC is actually very hard for existing AI techniques.

Kind of

Arc requires you to try new ideas.

And that's very much the point, by the way.

The point is not that, yeah, you should just be able to apply existing technology and solve Arc.