Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta
by ww520 on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:25PM
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He believes that AGI is an engineering problem because of the vast compute resource required for it. Being an engineering problem he believes he can make an impact.
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That would be utterly wrong.
GPT-3 happened and showed that by throwing more computation at the problem you have better results.
As one of my AI profs said: it's like trying to teach pigs to fly, and say you're progressing because you're building higher towers.
Chomsky and Gary Marcus predict that the current approach will not be sufficient; is and will increasingly be detrimental to society because of that “almost right at best” reason. Chomsky only has hopes in a combined approach that integrates “old AI” with the engineering / data / GPU driven one. See also discussion here for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857543