You'll know AGI is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible.
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Passing ARC-AGI does not equate to achieving AGI, and, as a matter of fact, I don't think o3 is AGI yet. o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences with human intelligence.BlogOpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-PubDec 20, 2024
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Now LLMs have sucked the oxygen out of the room. Everyone is just doing LLMs. I see LLMs as more of an off-ramp on the path to AGI actually.PodcastDwarkesh Podcast: Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzlesJun 11, 2024
OpenAI basically set back progress towards AGI by quite a few years, probably like 5-10 years.PodcastDwarkesh Podcast: Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzlesJun 11, 2024
The way LLMs work is that they’re basically this big interpolative memory.
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And actually the models today are far beyond what was possible even six months ago.TalkImport AI 458 / 2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture, OxfordMay 26, 2026
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My personal takeaway from the last several years, and take on why there has been so much Shakespearean drama between the companies in our field, comes down to this: “Once you see AGI you can’t unsee it.”BlogUntitled post, April 2026Apr 10, 2026
The only solution I can come up with is to orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring.InterviewBig Technology Podcast: Doubling Down on Text Models, The Superapp Plan, Codex's PotentialApr 7, 2026
And at this point we have line of sight to much better models that are coming this year, and the amount of pain within OpenAI that we’ve had to decide how to allocate compute goes up, not down, over time.
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- Francois Chollet, Creator of ARC-AGI, co-founder ARC Prize
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- OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub
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- arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough
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