Carmack and Sutton aim to develop a genuine AI prototype by 2030, focusing on establishing, advancing, and documenting AGI signs of life. Carmack, a celebrated software engineer, previously founded Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace, and played a key role in the development of the Oculus Rift prototype. Sutton, a pioneer of reinforcement learning, has made significant contributions to the field and will retain his current roles at Amii and the University of Alberta.
Key takeaways:
- John Carmack, founder of Keen Technologies, and Dr. Richard Sutton, Chief Scientific Advisor at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), have announced a partnership to focus on the creation of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
- This partnership marks the first public milestone for Keen Technologies since its initial funding announcement in 2022.
- The collaboration aims to advance research priorities to understand basic computational intelligence and create long-lived computation agents that interact with a complex world.
- Carmack and Sutton aim to develop a genuine AI prototype by 2030, including establishing, advancing, and documenting AGI signs of life.