The "DOOM" Guy's AI Passion Project

Legendary coder and revered video game developer John Carmack has stated that he has begun a project focused on the development of AGI: Artificial General Intelligence.



AGI is a type of AI that learns and acts much like normal humans do. In other words, Carmack is pursuing an AI capable of learning, problem solving, and behaving much like us. If images of the classic "the AI has gone rogue" trope just flashed in your mind then you are on the money, except hopefully Carmack will lean on the side of the "good" kind of AI like R2D2. Given Carmack's prowess in the realm of video games and virtual reality, if anyone can make headway in such an endeavor I believe it to be him. Time will tell if such a journey will yield the advancement of mankind or its destruction.

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