Special Announcement: John Carmack & Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI

A special announcement from Amii's Chief Scientific Advisor, Rich Sutton, announcing a partnership with John Carmack, celebrated software engineer and founder of Keen Technologies, to bring greater focus and urgency to the creation of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Carmack and Sutton are deeply focused on developing a genuine AI prototype by 2030, including establishing, advancing, and documenting AGI signs of life.

The announcement is followed by an engaging fireside chat with John Carmack and Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Michael Bowling. Watch the conversation as they discuss innovation in games, open source, virtual reality, rockets and John's vision for the future of AI.

0:00 Keen Technologies Partnership Announcement
16:35 Fireside Chat with John Carmack and Michael Bowling

[clee]

They should've let devs and academia to ask questions, instead of media.

[CharlesVanNoland]

"There are some architectures that may be important - that just because they're not easily expressed as tensors in Pytorch or Jax or whatever, that people shy away from because you only build the things that the tools you're familiar with are capable of building. I do think there is potentially some value there for architectures that, as a low-level programmer that's comfortable writing just raw CUDA and managing my own network communications for things, there are things that I may do that others wouldn't consider."

"One of my boundaries is that it has to be able to run in real time. Maybe not for my very first experiment, but if I can't manage a 30hz/33-millisecond sort of training update for a continuous online-learned algorithm, then I probably won't consider it because I do consider that necessary for - even while you might grow in a simulated world at some point people aren't going to really buy it until they're having a Zoom call with the AI... So that ability to run in realtime goes against the current grain."

[BrockGunterSmith]

I’m a little late to the game on seeing this announcement. However, CONGRATS and GOOD LUCK! Having followed John’s posts in the first year he started his own journey into AGI I’m thrilled to see his continued contributions to this field and especially in Canada nonetheless :-)

[ask.repeat]

You can do it, John! Unrelated, but I wish they'd stick with simple backgrounds behind speakers.

[mariusirgens]

If Carmack is on the job, I expect AGI in a year! He is a true genius.

[eldiegoasecas]

as if john carmack was not a big name already, he's really gonna hit it big time if they get this done

[LightningAussie]

Terrible audio quality, maybe run it through an AI filter to clean it up

[ThePaulwarner]

John carmack discusses learning about clipping … into a mic that is aggressively clipping

[CannedMan]

‘I’m sorry, LightningAussie, I’m afraid I can’t do that.’

[johnvonachen]

How do I work with JC on this? I have some pretty good ideas about how to help.

[JoseJimeniz]

John Carmack brought real-time 3d to the desktop.

Hopefully he can bring LLMs, and stable diffusion to the desktop.

It's a race. We have to get it into everyone's hands before governments can ban it.
That's what we did with encryption; that's what has to happen here.

[sinistan]

since the brain is essentially a quantum computer how do you even do this without quantum computers seems like that is the way to go