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John Carmack Sets Out To Create General AI
Accepted submission by Rich https://soylentnews.org/~Rich/
at 2019-11-14 22:41:48
from the skynet dept.
John Carmack, programmer extraordinaire, and developer of seminal titles like "Doom" and "Quake" has said "Hasta La Vista" to his colleagues at Oculus to to set out for a new challenge. In a Facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/100006735798590/posts/2547632585471243/ [facebook.com]) he declares that he is going to work on artificial general intelligence.
What are the chances he can pull it off, and what could go wrong?
The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again.
