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

Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by goatlover on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:34PM (#21531919)

But not towards AGI. We're just improving on narrow AI after recent breakthroughs thanks to the hardware being powerful enough and large datasets being available.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by finebalance on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:28PM (#21532251)

The point the poster above is trying to make is that given the same amount of data, improvements in technique is leading to significant improvements in accuracy.

An illustrative example comes from the first lesson in fastai's deep learning course: an image classifier that would have been SOTA as late as 2012/13, can be built by the hobbyist in like 30 seconds.

That said, I don't disagree that this is all narrow AI, at best.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by redisman on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:56PM (#21538219)

Having access to cheap and scalable compute and storage should be helpful for AGI too. It doesn't solve anything but it does give more access to more people.

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