[HN Gopher] Rich Sutton joins John Carmack's Keen Technologies
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       Rich Sutton joins John Carmack's Keen Technologies
        
       Author : jasondavies
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-09-25 22:23 UTC (37 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | AndrewKemendo wrote:
       | Wow
       | 
       | This is massive, Rich is probably the singular guy that
       | legitimately has a realistic and long term vision for AGI (and
       | has been mostly correct his whole career)
       | 
       | Notably he left the US because he did not want to support the
       | Iraq war and established Alberta as THE reinforcement learning
       | hub since then. Also he did just expand the lab so I'm curious
       | how this will be integrated.
       | 
       | Carmack + Sutton working on AGI tells me it is 100% going to
       | happen.
        
         | gumballindie wrote:
         | > Carmack + Sutton working on AGI tells me it is 100% going to
         | happen.
         | 
         | Yeah but if it's anything like the oculus it will take valve or
         | htc to actually make it wow.
        
           | bexsella wrote:
           | Having watched the announcement the (literally) singular
           | question that was presented was essentially "Why should the
           | man on the street care about AGI now?", to which the answer
           | was "They shouldn't". But key to that answer was Carmack's
           | assertion that Keen will probably never release a "product"
           | like ChatGPT that aims to specifically wow people, that's not
           | Keen's goal.
        
       | version_five wrote:
       | This is a link to a Twitter announcing a YouTube coming in 1/2
       | hour. Does / did the YouTube contain the announcement?
       | 
       | Now that Twitter has gone subscriber only, we can't see any
       | context around tweets. I think they should be DOA now when posted
       | to HN as they do not allow for follow up or rtfaing.
        
         | jasondavies wrote:
         | Yes, it was announced on the (relatively brief) live stream.
        
           | version_five wrote:
           | Thanks, is there a better link then that would let someone
           | not up to speed understand the announcement and significance?
        
       | jasondavies wrote:
       | For context, Rich Sutton is one of the founding fathers of
       | reinforcement learning. He is also known for his 2019 essay, "The
       | Bitter Lesson":
       | http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
        
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