Francois Chollet: no 'AGI' declaration until AI can make inventions and conceptual breakthroughs
Neurogence · reddit · 2026-09-08
Francois Chollet, creator of Keras and the ARC benchmark, says he would not "declare AGI" until AI is capable of invention — conceptual breakthroughs, novel insights, and new real-world technology.
He argues the core narrative for building AGI has always been about invention: "it will cure cancer, it will solve fusion energy." By that yardstick, benchmark scores and fluent conversation don't qualify — only producing genuinely new knowledge and technology does.
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