François Chollet: ARC-AGI-3, Beyond Deep Learning & A New Approach To ML

François Chollet discusses his contrarian approach to AI, moving beyond scaling LLMs to understand intelligence from first principles. He explains his work on the ARC benchmark series, including the new ARC-AGI V3, designed to measure 'agentic intelligence' and skill acquisition efficiency. He also introduces his lab, Ndea, which is developing a new ML paradigm based on symbolic models, and shares his perspective on the limits of current systems and the future path to AGI.