François Chollet declares "Symbolic learning works" in terse but weighty statement
fchollet · x · 2026-10-24
François Chollet, creator of Keras and the ARC benchmark, posted a terse "Symbolic learning works" on X. Coming from one of the most-watched voices on reasoning and AGI measurement, the three-word statement reads as an endorsement of the neuro-symbolic direction and is drawing wide attention.
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