Why does it matter?
The key claim is that AGI progress depends on new ideas, not simply scaling today's systems.
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I still think I'm less bullish than most people in tech most people tend to have much much shorter timelines than I do but I do believe like I do believe we're not that far uh from AI anymore in the sense that we know what the key problems are and they feel like they're tractable if you just start working on the right ideas and I do believe the right ideas are already around us you know they they already out there somewhere on archive and and other places and in people's minds um we will we will find the solution it's just a matter of you know a few years
Francois Chollet