John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
He talks about AGI at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;udlMSe5-zP8?t=2776" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;udlMSe5-zP8?t=2776</a><p>I wonder if all the really smart people who think AGI is around the corner know something I don&#x27;t.  Well, clearly they know a lot of things that I don&#x27;t, but I wonder if there&#x27;s some decisive piece of information I&#x27;m missing.  I&#x27;m a &quot;strict materialist&quot; too, but that doesn&#x27;t mean I think we can build a brain or a sun or a planet or etc within X years, it just means that I think it&#x27;s <i>technically possible</i> to build those things.<p>I don&#x27;t see how we get from &quot;neural net that&#x27;s really good at identifying objects&quot; to &quot;general intelligence&quot;.  The emphasis on computational power also makes no sense to me.  If we had infinite compute <i>today</i>, what steps would you take to build AGI?  Does anyone have any good ideas about that?<p>Sometimes I wonder if AGI (and the concept of a &quot;technological singularity&quot;) isn&#x27;t just &quot;intelligent design for people with north of 140 IQ&quot;.  Maybe really smart people tend to develop a blindspot for really hard problems (because they&#x27;ve solved so many of them so effectively).