GPT-3 is able to solve very basic IQ test-like reasoning problems (completing number sequences) not because it demonstrates reasoning ability but because it has memorized templates of these problems online and can generalize from the memorized templates; on novel problems like ARC tasks, GPT-3 completely fails because it has not seen them online and cannot adapt to new situations, demonstrating it is not intelligent.

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Speaker

François Chollet

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it is not intelligent because it cannot adapt. Uh it cannot deal with any new situation.

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Francois Chollet | Why abstraction is the key to intelligence, and what we’re still missingHarvard CMSA
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:07:58 PM

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