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John Carmack (ex Oculus, Id software) just had a really good interview about this: https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-art

John Carmack (ex Oculus, Id software) just had a really good interview about this: https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/ https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe... To summarise: he thinks we've got most of the pieces now to maybe get within reach of a useful AGI (he likens it to a worker you instantiate in the cloud who can do tasks for you like a colleague) and I think he's saying some of the techniques used to make LLMs could be part of the solution I think that, almost certainly, the tools that we’ve got from deep learning in this last decade—we’ll be able to ride those to artificial general intelligence.

mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
Calling Carmack a credible expert is a bit rich. He claims to have read a handful of papers. He's yet to do any significant, successful work in the field.
- didntreadarticl 4y ago
  Well no one else was answering bbor's question and I think Carmack is a fairly credible person in tech in general. He claims to have read a handful of papers. 40 is more than a handful. OpenAI tried to recruit him he asked them to recommend papers: And he gave me a list of like 40 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’ And I did. If Carmack says he studied a paper, I dont take that to mean that he merely scrolled through it while sitting on the loo. I think he's pretty serious. Oculus tech used a lot of AI for visual tracking of hands etc, its not like Carmack is just blundering his way into this. He announced this was his next thing back in 2019