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I find Carmack incredibly arrogant to assume the he alone will be able to solve AGI. I mean the guy is a good programmer, no question about it, but let's get re
by mk2k21 4y ago
I find Carmack incredibly arrogant to assume the he alone will be able to solve AGI. I mean the guy is a good programmer, no question about it, but let's get real: his major credentials come from having built 3d game engines, which by today's standards are quite primitive. His work at Facebook / Meta is meh at the most, the Quest didn't revolutionize VR by any means. Becoming rich from the sale of Id to Zenimax is not proof of genius. I admire his achievements, but I think he's way overrated.
- nyokodo 4y ago> his major credentials come from having built 3d game engines, which by today's standards are quite primitive Primitive now but in their time they were groundbreaking and incredibly difficult to make work on the primitive hardware of the time and he kept pushing the envelope for a long time. Carmack is a bit of a genius, but that doesn’t mean he’s right about AGI. My own take is that actual General Intelligence may rely on any physical phenomenon from the macro to quantum effects including aspects of reality we don’t know about yet. It’s really hard to simulate things when you don’t know they’re involved. We won’t know until we try so I guess we’ll see what happens.
- Communitivity 4y agoThe initial breakthrough that eventually leads to the creation of AGI will come from one person. The creation of AGI will likely be a incremental process involving small improvements on that breakthrough, made by many people. This is generally how science works. 99% evolution in small incremental advancements, 1% revolution in a stroke of genius that opens up new areas of science.