I'm sure he knows his stuff, and is venturing into this knowing that there's somewhat of a "hard problem" to be solved here; serious proponents of AI like Kai-Fung Lee have stated that AGI may never be possible.
The fact that he's making a public statement like this leads me to believe he may already have some novel solutions on how to tackle the problem. We won't be expecting to be seeing the same old parlor tricks coming out of John Carmack. He is already on the forefront of this stuff after all.
That's exhilarating but also terrifying. Our still-barbarian level human systems are still nowhere near ready to deal with the socioeconomic problems that may arise with AGI.
> leads me to believe he may already have some novel solutions on how to tackle the problem.
> That's exhilarating but also terrifying. Our still-barbarian level human systems are still nowhere near ready to deal with the socioeconomic problems that may arise with AGI.
I think you are reading way too much into his statement. It's extremly unlikely that he just magically figured out a way to tackle the problem (just knowing where to get started would be massive).
Carmack is a pragmatist- I'd doubt he'd be doing this if he didn't feel like he had some initial promising directions in mind, though I agree he's probably very early in the process still.
Or maybe when he is talking about making a dent on AGI, he is talking about a very long term objective (say 20-30 years) and he still has to figure out everything.
The fact that he's making a public statement like this leads me to believe he may already have some novel solutions on how to tackle the problem. We won't be expecting to be seeing the same old parlor tricks coming out of John Carmack. He is already on the forefront of this stuff after all.
That's exhilarating but also terrifying. Our still-barbarian level human systems are still nowhere near ready to deal with the socioeconomic problems that may arise with AGI.