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Re: John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — in other words, systems that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human can. Not in my lifetime, not in this millennium. Possibly in the year 2,300. Weird way to blow $20 million.

Doesn't imply any task, just a wide variety of tasks. 10 years at most.

Then it's NOT generalized. ANY means ANY.

Re: John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

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I wonder if Carmacks moral compass is in order. First he sticks around at Facebook, now he endangers humanity with AGI. And i'm only half joking.

I think he very clearly has an amoral attitude towards technology development -- "you can't stop progress." He does describe his own "hacker ethic" and whatever he develops he may make more open than OpenAI.

though I think he has some moral compass around what he believes people should do or not do with technology. For example, he has publicly expressed admiration for electric cars / cleantech and SpaceX's decision to prioritize Mars over other areas with higher ROI.

Re: John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

#53

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — in other words, systems that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human can. Not in my lifetime, not in this millennium. Possibly in the year 2,300. Weird way to blow $20 million.

It’s not blowing 20 million if it results in meaningful progress in this area. We have something like 2700 billionaires on this planet. This isn’t even a drop in the bucket for someone like that interested in furthering this research.

AGI could quite literally shift any job to automation. This is human-experience changing stuff.

Re: John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

#54

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — in other words, systems that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human can. Not in my lifetime, not in this millennium. Possibly in the year 2,300. Weird way to blow $20 million.

Weestern civilization would be dead if it weren't for eccentric people like this. Let them blow $20M, there are worse ways.

Re: John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

#55
post #34

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — in other words, systems that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human can. Not in my lifetime, not in this millennium. Possibly in the year 2,300. Weird way to blow $20 million.

Doesn't imply any task, just a wide variety of tasks. 10 years at most.

By definition it has to be any task otherwise it wouldn't be general. What tasks wouldn't an AGI be able to perform and still be an AGI?

Re: John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

#58

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — in other words, systems that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human can. Not in my lifetime, not in this millennium. Possibly in the year 2,300. Weird way to blow $20 million.

It’s not blowing 20 million if it results in meaningful progress in this area. We have something like 2700 billionaires on this planet. This isn’t even a drop in the bucket for someone like that interested in furthering this research. AGI could quite literally shift any job to automation. This is human-experience changing stuff.

> This is human-experience changing stuff.

that's one way of putting it

it will remove the need for the vast majority of the population, which will end extremely badly

Re: John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — in other words, systems that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human can. Not in my lifetime, not in this millennium. Possibly in the year 2,300. Weird way to blow $20 million.

If I'm remembering right, Carmack believes AGI will be a thing by 2030. He said this in his recent interview with Lex Fridman.

From what I remember, his definition of AGI didn't include an average IQ, which it shouldn't.
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