280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence

<p>Which is more intelligent, <a href="https://x.com/fchollet/status/1804637653880733761" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ChatGPT or a 3-year old</a>? Of course this depends on what we mean by "intelligence." A modern LLM is certainly able to answer all sorts of questions that require knowledge far past the capacity of a 3-year old, and even to perform synthetic tasks that seem remarkable to many human grown-ups. But is that really intelligence? François Chollet argues that it is not, and that LLMs are not ever going to be truly "intelligent" in the usual sense -- although other approaches to AI might get there.</p> <p><em>Support Mindscape on </em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Patreon</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p>Blog post with transcript: <a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/06/24/280-francois-chollet-on-deep-learning-and-the-meaning-of-intelligence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/06/24/280-francois-chollet-on-deep-learning-and-the-meaning-of-intelligence/</a></p> <p>François Chollet received his Diplôme d'Ingénieur from École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris. He is currently a Senior Staff Engineer at Google. He has been awarded the Global Swiss AI award for breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. He is the author of <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python-second-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Deep Learning with Python</em></a>, and developer of the <a href="https://keras.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keras</a> software library for neural networks. He is the creator of the <a href="https://arcprize.org/blog/launch" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ARC (Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus) Challenge.</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://fchollet.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Web site</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/fchollet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VfYhf2wAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar publications</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chollet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"On the Measure of Intelligence"</a></li> </ul> <p><br /></p>