Google Engineer Says OpenAI Set Back AI Research by 5-10 Years Due to LLM Hype
6 months ago
Google software engineer François Chollet criticized OpenAI for hindering Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) progress by 5-10 years, citing their influence in closing down frontier research publishing and creating hype around Large Language Models (LLMs). Chollet and Mike Knoop launched the $1 million ARC-AGI Prize to encourage more focus on frontier AGI research, noting limited progress in current AGI capabilities.
