François Chollet was an AI skeptic who went from 10+ years to ~2030 on AGI. Now he expects it sooner.

Explain Like I'm Normal

François Chollet, the creator of the Keras framework and the famously difficult ARC-AGI benchmark, has revised his timeline for AGI to be sooner than 2030. Previously a staunch critic of LLM-only scaling, Chollet cites the rapid saturation of current reasoning benchmarks and recent multimodal progress as the reason for his shift. When the guy who wrote the test for human-level intelligence says we're ahead of schedule, people listen.