John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence

Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by Impossible on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:55PM (#21531179)

Carmack built rockets and id bought $100Ks of NeXT machines to make Doom so I wouldn't put it past him to have incredible amounts of hardware... even at home. Considering his position at Facebook and that he is industry famous he probably has access to data and cloud resources that a researcher outside of OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, etc. normally wouldn't have access to. He could also raise money relatively easily to pursue more intense research.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by drcode on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:08PM (#21531293)

What would be awesome is if he just said one day "I need 100 million dollars for my AGI project to buy hardware, anyone who wants to share in a 20% cut of the business just send funds to bitcoin address ### or ethereum address ###". He would be fully funded within an hour, probably.

Unfortunately that could never happen because of the SEC.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by VikingCoder on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:29PM (#21531442)

John Carmack could set up a Patreon for us to watch him vlog his progress, and could earn more than most of us ever will.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by Nuzzerino on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:07PM (#21531730)

Wasn't this already done by Goertzel's SingularityNET? They raised $36 million in 66 seconds (note: I don't recommend trying this).

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