Chollet Argues Real AGI Shouldn't Need Human Handholding on New Tasks — 96 Upvotes Amid ARC-AGI-3 Launch

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Coinciding with today's ARC-AGI-3 launch, François Chollet posted arguments on r/singularity (96 upvotes, 67 comments) that genuine AGI should handle novel tasks without human scaffolding — directly challenging the current paradigm of heavily prompted, human-guided agent workflows. The timing positions this as the philosophical framing for ARC-AGI-3's shift to interactive learning benchmarks that measure autonomous adaptation rather than static reasoning.