program synthesis

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 3, 2025 by Francois Chollet · across every show →

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Apr 3, 2025
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Chollet: Program synthesis bottleneck is the costly million-point search space
“The main bottleneck is that this search process takes a very, very long time. It's a very large search space, and to evaluate all these points you know, which point takes you some amount of competition to evaluate. You're gonna have to evaluate millions of poi…”
Francois Chollet Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 27:25 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
Apr 3, 2025
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Knoop: Deep learning has millions of engineers, program synthesis has mere hundreds
“There's maybe a couple of million deep learning engineers now in the world. In contrast, there's probably maybe only a few hundred like really great program synthesis folks across, across the world.”
Mike Knoop Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 59:19 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
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