François Chollet, a leading figure in the AI world, leaves Google after almost a decade.
In a job On X, the 34 -year -old French developer said he was launching a new business with “a friend”, but he refused to reveal many details.
“I am very grateful for my decade at Google,” wrote Chollet in the post. “In this time, in -depth learning has gone from a niche academic subject to a massive industry using millions.”
Chollet is perhaps better known as the creator of Keras, a high-level open source API that can be used to create AI models and fight against automatic learning tasks. A job On Google, the developers’ blog notes that Keras has more than 2 million users and feeds a number of high -level technological products, such as Waymo autonomous cars, as well as recommendation engines on YouTube, Netflix and Spotify.
In 2019, Chollet published the Reference Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (Arc-Agi), which measures the capacity of AI systems to solve new reasoning problems. This year, he launched the Arc Prize, a competition of $ 1 million to beat Arc-Agi. (There is a bit left.)
Chollet has often argued that the approach adopted by many main laboratories developing AI – supplying more and more data and computer resources to models – will not reach AI which is as “intelligent” as humans . Instead, he thinks that the methods that help models to “reason” in a more human way, as Neuro-symbolic iaare the most promising path to follow.
In 2021, Chollet won the Global Swiss IA Award for the breakthroughs in AI. And in September, he was appointed by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of AI.
Cotter said The time he plans a super intelligent AI as a tool to advance human knowledge. “Artificial general intelligence will be a kind of super competent scientist,” he said.
Chollet said Jeff Carpenter, an automatic learning engineer at Google, would take over as a team leader for Keras.
“I have fully confidence in Jeff and in the incredibly talented Keras team to continue to push the limits of what is possible in in -depth learning,” wrote Chollet in his article. “I will remain deeply involved in the Keras project from the outside.”
Techcrunch has a newsletter focused on AI! Register here To get it in your reception box every Wednesday.