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>I could really hear it in his talk why he moved on to spend more time on his next passion what is he moving onto?

by test1235 6y ago

aantix 6y ago
AGI, artificial general intelligence as an independent researcher.
- thomasfortes 6y ago
  He was complaining a couple days ago in twitter that he couldn't buy a ton of expensive gpu machines on GCP as an independent researcher, but being John Carmack someone from google stepped up and fixed it for him.
  - runevault 6y ago
    Was that where he was talking about how Google wanted him to have a website to prove his validity (before people stepped in of course). Reading that thread was bizarre...
    - cyrux004 6y ago
      haha, yes that was it
  - easton 6y ago
    I wonder why he didn’t just move over to Azure, they don’t make a distinction between a corporate person and an individual, as long as you can pay your bill. (I’ve never hit the oh no limit, anyway. He’s probably using a ton of power though).
  - ksec 6y ago
    Link below. Anyway why do they have such a low quota? To stop people from using it for Crypto? But surely they could have make multiple account if it needs to be. So why put a limit? https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1305967411749892098 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1305967411749892098
- ilaksh 6y ago
  Actually I just realized, after thinking about the forward looking AR research talk by the VP or whoever, that AGI is actually the long-term research goal for Facebook's AR. They want a personal assistant that understands the world well enough to insert content that you need. So John is actually still working on the next phase of the Facebook AR project in my opinion.
  - jasonwatkinspdx 6y ago
    Nope. He's collaborating with his son on it, and he's being extremely careful to keep the work highly partitioned for IP reasons. He doesn't want a repeat of the ZenniMax lawsuit. I'd read it as his sunset project for his career, where he gets to take a longshot at something really ambitious, while enjoying hacking with his son.
    - ilaksh 6y ago
      I didn't mean he was actually working for Facebook. I meant it's an extension of the project there. Even though it seems unrelated.

>I could really hear it in his talk why he moved on to spend more time on his next passion what is he moving onto?

aantix 6y ago

AGI, artificial general intelligence as an independent researcher.

thomasfortes 6y ago
He was complaining a couple days ago in twitter that he couldn't buy a ton of expensive gpu machines on GCP as an independent researcher, but being John Carmack someone from google stepped up and fixed it for him.
- runevault 6y ago
  Was that where he was talking about how Google wanted him to have a website to prove his validity (before people stepped in of course). Reading that thread was bizarre...
  - cyrux004 6y ago
    haha, yes that was it
- easton 6y ago
  I wonder why he didn’t just move over to Azure, they don’t make a distinction between a corporate person and an individual, as long as you can pay your bill. (I’ve never hit the oh no limit, anyway. He’s probably using a ton of power though).
- ksec 6y ago
  Link below. Anyway why do they have such a low quota? To stop people from using it for Crypto? But surely they could have make multiple account if it needs to be. So why put a limit? https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1305967411749892098 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1305967411749892098
ilaksh 6y ago
Actually I just realized, after thinking about the forward looking AR research talk by the VP or whoever, that AGI is actually the long-term research goal for Facebook's AR. They want a personal assistant that understands the world well enough to insert content that you need. So John is actually still working on the next phase of the Facebook AR project in my opinion.
- jasonwatkinspdx 6y ago
  Nope. He's collaborating with his son on it, and he's being extremely careful to keep the work highly partitioned for IP reasons. He doesn't want a repeat of the ZenniMax lawsuit. I'd read it as his sunset project for his career, where he gets to take a longshot at something really ambitious, while enjoying hacking with his son.
  - ilaksh 6y ago
    I didn't mean he was actually working for Facebook. I meant it's an extension of the project there. Even though it seems unrelated.