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Carmack is great but completely irrelevant here. He missed the entire AI/LLM/ML boat to help Zuckerberg hawk virtual reality fantasies for years.

vinkelhake 3y ago
Completely irrelevant is probably overstating it. He's been working on AI for the last 4+ years.
- cactusplant7374 3y ago
  He's striving for AGI though, right? So he's not really working on anything because he certainly hasn't discovered AGI.
- Solvency 3y ago
  He literally squandered the last 10 years of his life working on absolutely nothing for Zuckerberg. And only after the rest of the world innovated on AI (transformers, etc) did he clearly feel embarrassed and had to proclaim he's going to focus on AGI in a "one-up" way.
  - talldayo 3y ago
    > He literally squandered the last 10 years of his life working on absolutely nothing Speak for yourself, the Oculus Quest is the coolest piece of sub-$500 tech in my home.
  - fkyoureadthedoc 3y ago
    He got paid a lot to do something he was presumably passionate about and enjoyed. It also might surprise you to find out that there's quite a lot of people that just work as a means to an end, and find value and enjoyment primarily from other parts of their life.
    - Solvency 3y ago
      that's great for him. i'm glad he enjoyed the $$$ playing with VR. that has nothing to do with my point about his irrelevance to this LLaMa discussion.
      - talldayo 3y ago
        He's not irrelevant, though. Literally the first thing he did after leaving Meta was start an AI business, and the original point wasn't even necessarily about AI. They just said they wanted to see two engineers in conversation, and you used it as an opportunity to denigrate one of their previous employers. That's bewilderingly irrelevant.
        Solvency 3y ago
        i can "start an ai business" too simply by incorporating.
        modeless 3y ago
        Can you raise $20m and get the likes of Rich Sutton to collaborate with you?
        talldayo 3y ago
        And if you did, you wouldn't be irrelevant anymore. I don't get your point.
cactusplant7374 3y ago
Altman isn't even relevant here. He is focusing on LLM's instead of a framework that gets us to AGI. He can't describe how we get there or any such theories around AGI. It's a complete failure.

vinkelhake 3y ago

Completely irrelevant is probably overstating it. He's been working on AI for the last 4+ years.

cactusplant7374 3y ago
He's striving for AGI though, right? So he's not really working on anything because he certainly hasn't discovered AGI.
Solvency 3y ago
He literally squandered the last 10 years of his life working on absolutely nothing for Zuckerberg. And only after the rest of the world innovated on AI (transformers, etc) did he clearly feel embarrassed and had to proclaim he's going to focus on AGI in a "one-up" way.
- talldayo 3y ago
  > He literally squandered the last 10 years of his life working on absolutely nothing Speak for yourself, the Oculus Quest is the coolest piece of sub-$500 tech in my home.
- fkyoureadthedoc 3y ago
  He got paid a lot to do something he was presumably passionate about and enjoyed. It also might surprise you to find out that there's quite a lot of people that just work as a means to an end, and find value and enjoyment primarily from other parts of their life.
  - Solvency 3y ago
    that's great for him. i'm glad he enjoyed the $$$ playing with VR. that has nothing to do with my point about his irrelevance to this LLaMa discussion.
    - talldayo 3y ago
      He's not irrelevant, though. Literally the first thing he did after leaving Meta was start an AI business, and the original point wasn't even necessarily about AI. They just said they wanted to see two engineers in conversation, and you used it as an opportunity to denigrate one of their previous employers. That's bewilderingly irrelevant.
      - Solvency 3y ago
        i can "start an ai business" too simply by incorporating.
        modeless 3y ago
        Can you raise $20m and get the likes of Rich Sutton to collaborate with you?
        talldayo 3y ago
        And if you did, you wouldn't be irrelevant anymore. I don't get your point.

cactusplant7374 3y ago

Altman isn't even relevant here. He is focusing on LLM's instead of a framework that gets us to AGI. He can't describe how we get there or any such theories around AGI. It's a complete failure.