Chollet: Intelligence Needs Grounding — It's Almost Never the Bottleneck for Real Problems
fchollet · x · 2026-10-14
François Chollet argues that string theory is what happens when an intelligent system starved of sensory input starts hallucinating — intelligence needs grounding. For this reason, he says, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems; the bottleneck is iterated contact with reality.
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