Francois never said he dislike LLMs. In fact, he said he expected them to be par...

refulgentis · 2025-04-04T22:36:29 1743806189

> part of the solution to ARC. I don’t know where this persistent myth comes from,

Part of, explicitly, not the, quite 100% explicitly. The TL;DR is "LLMs can't do it alone, program synthesis leveraging LLMs is my bet". Not "Maybe not LLMs but they'll certainly help us get there!", quite the opposite! Hence: well, TFA. And the intellectually lazy quote we are explicitly discussing. And anything Chollet has said on the subject. [^1]

[^1]"LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution" - https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/francois-chollet - 1.5 hours with the gent