John Carmack, celebrated software engineer and founder of Keen Technologies, and Dr. Richard Sutton, Chief Scientific Advisor at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) announce a partnership to bring greater focus and urgency to the creation of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
This partnership is the first public milestone for Keen Technologies, following its initial funding announcement in August of 2022. The initial $20M round was led by Nat Friedman, Danial Gross, Patrick Collision, Tobi Lutke, Jim Keller, Sequoia Capital, and Capital Factory. In December 2022, Carmack departed as consulting CTO at Meta to focus his efforts on AGI.
Sutton is the principal founder of the field of reinforcement learning. His work with Keen Technologies advances previously announced research priorities to understand basic computational intelligence. Through this work, documented in part in The Alberta Plan, Sutton seeks to understand and create long-lived computation agents that interact with a vastly more complex world and come to predict and control their sensory input signals.
“I am excited to partner with John and the rest of the team at Keen Technologies. John is a powerful intellect and one of the world’s greatest system engineers. We have different backgrounds and strengths but a common view of what is needed to understand and create an artificial mind.” Dr. Richard Sutton
“The AI space is awash in capital, compute, and data, but it is still dominated by fashions that may yet hinder important breakthroughs. Rich and I both stand somewhat outside the mainstream, with a focus on agency and the temporal as central themes. Rich’s body of work was formative to my AI education; being able to work directly with him is an unexpected delight.” John Carmack
Carmack and Sutton are deeply focused on developing a genuine AI prototype by 2030, including establishing, advancing and documenting AGI signs of life.
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