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

Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by anonytrary on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:30AM (#21533259)

AI today is comparable to physics in the 1700s. Back then, it was a bunch of people tinkering with prisms and apples. Today, it's a bunch of people tinkering with hyperparameters. I suspect that we know as little about AGI today as someone in the 1700s knew about QFT. Not only did they not know about QFT, but they didn't even know that they didn't know it.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by emmanuel_1234 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @02:25AM (#21533499)

Wouldn't it be fun if the next Newton turns out to be the guy who wrote Doom and other FPS, games that were blamed for any kind of surge of violence until the GTA games show up?

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by codingslave on Thursday November 14, 2019 @02:42AM (#21533571)

Yeah, weird to think that todays newton could be seen on Joe Rogans Podcast talking about the future of gaming

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by toxik on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:17AM (#21534539)

It would fit, Newton was apparently quite insufferable in social settings — Carjack has a stroke of that

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by TremendousJudge on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:59AM (#21536438)

Wouldn't be out of place -- Newton worked on alchemy, teology and managed the Royal Mint

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by Iv on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:38AM (#21542781)

Too many people make this mistake of conflating machine learning with AI. I hope someone as external to the field as Carmack will see the value of rule based inference as well. The Good Old Fashioned AI as it used to be called

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