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Chollet: 50,000x LLM scaling yielded flat progress on ARC benchmark
“Because between, like, GPT-II and GPT-IV. There's been this 50,000 X scale up of base models that has resulted in, in, in basically a flat curve. On Arc.”
Francois Chollet Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 11:44 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
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Chollet: Scaling LLMs 50,000x Only Lifted ARC Accuracy to 10%
“And from at the time, back in 2019 to now, with a model like GPT 4.5, for instance, there's been a roughly 50,000 X scale up of basal alarms. And we went from zero percent accuracy on that benchmark to roughly 10%, which is not a lot.”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 2:09 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
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Chollet: Base LLMs score 0% and static reasoning scores 1-2% on ARC-2
“Well, if you take Bazel Alums, model Slack, GPT-IV-IV-V, LAMA-IV, it's simple, they get zero percent. There is simply no way to do these tasks simply via memorization. Next, if you look at static reasoning systems, so systems that use a single chain of tasks t…”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 17:36 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
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Chollet: SOTA test-time adaptation takes thousands in compute to solve ARC-1
“Even the latest set of the art CTA techniques they still need thousands of dollars of compute to solve arc one at human level. And that doesn't even scale to arc two.”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 24:28 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
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Chollet: Latest base LLMs score zero percent on ARC-AGI-2
“Today the latest base alarms, they're doing something like 10% on ARK-I. But on Arc two, they are doing zero percent.”
Francois Chollet Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 10:50 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
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Chollet: Base LLMs Score Under 10% on ARC-AGI-1
“So basal alarms were scoring extremely low on V-one, like sub-ten percent, basically. And, I mean, it was true of the original, like, GPT-III actually scoring zero, but that's even true of the latest basal alarms today, you know, as of March.”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 17:57 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
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Chollet: Fine-Tuned OpenAI o3 Reached Human-Level Performance on ARC
“So in particular, in December last year, OpenAI previewed its, ah, all three model, and they used a version of it that was, ah, fine-tuned specifically on Arc, and that showed human-level performance on that benchmark versus time.”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 3:29 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
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Chollet: MindAI dropped out of ARC Prize over open-source requirements
“They ended up dropping out because they did not want to open source their solution. And of course, that meant that they were not eligible for the prize.”
Francois Chollet Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 42:03 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
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Chollet: Every High-Performing ARC AI Method Uses Test-Time Adaptation
“And today, every single AI approach that performs well on Arc is using one of these techniques.”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 4:13 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
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Chollet: Average human test score on ARC-AGI-2 is about 60%
“Based on our own testing, an average person in our test sample would score about 60%.”
Francois Chollet Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 46:17 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
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Chollet: All ARC-3 environments are solvable by untrained humans
“All of these test environments in Arc three Are solvable by humans with no prior training because we actually tested them on, on regular people.”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 27:52 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
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Chollet: Compute costs have fallen two orders of magnitude per decade since 1940
“The cost of compute has been consistently falling by two orders of magnitude every decade since 1940.”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 0:13 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
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