John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
He talks about AGI at <a href="https://youtu.be/udlMSe5-zP8?t=2776" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/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't.  Well, clearly they know a lot of things that I don't, but I wonder if there's some decisive piece of information I'm missing.  I'm a "strict materialist" too, but that doesn'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's <i>technically possible</i> to build those things.<p>I don't see how we get from "neural net that's really good at identifying objects" to "general intelligence".  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 "technological singularity") isn't just "intelligent design for people with north of 140 IQ".  Maybe really smart people tend to develop a blindspot for really hard problems (because they've solved so many of them so effectively).