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A tournament tried to test how well experts could forecast AI progress. They were all wrong.

A tournament tried to test how well experts could forecast AI progress. They were all wrong.

Two of the smartest people I follow in the AI world recently sat down to check in on how the field is going. One was François Chollet, creator of the widely used Keras library and author of the ARC-AGI benchmark, which tests if AI has reached “general” or broadly human-level intelligence. Chollet has a reputation […]

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