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John Carmack moving to a new position at Oculus

kojack
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From his facebook page:

Starting this week, I’m moving to a "Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.

I will still have a voice in the development work, but it will only be consuming a modest slice of my time.


As for what I am going to be doing with the rest of my time: When I
think back over everything I have done across games, aerospace, and VR, I
have always felt that I had at least a vague “line of sight” to the
solutions, even if they were unconventional or unproven. I have
sometimes wondered how I would fare with a problem where the solution
really isn’t in sight. I decided that I should give it a try before I
get too old.

I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI).


I think it is possible, enormously valuable, and that I have a
non-negligible chance of making a difference there, so by a Pascal’s
Mugging sort of logic, I should be working on it.

For the time
being at least, I am going to be going about it “Victorian Gentleman
Scientist” style, pursuing my inquiries from home, and drafting my son
into the work.

Runner up for next project was cost effective
nuclear fission reactors, which wouldn’t have been as suitable for that
style of work.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2547632585471243&id=100006735798590

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1194754916293722114


So it sounds like he'll be less involved with VR from now on, focusing more on AI in his personal time instead. If that's what he's interested in, good on him.


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inovator
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All good things come to an end.

kojack
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At least he's still there, just in a less allocation.

Maybe now he'll have time to hang around the forum?
B)

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Richooal
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It's interesting that he just said that he wasn't happy with the speed of progress in VR, and now he's switching to something where he has no idea of how to proceed (yet).

I say good luck to him. He changes everything he works on for the better.
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RuneSR2
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Feels like the original Oculus team is close to completely gone :'( What Carmack says seems to me like a gradual retirement plan from Oculus - a slow departure and farewell. 

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kevinw729
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Remembering the beginning:

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And wishing him well on his continuing journey.
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This is the beginning of Skynet. We're all screwed.

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This is the beginning of Skynet. We're all screwed.

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I've played the Quakes and Dooms, I'm not worried. Unreal Tournament had better AI. 🙂

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Richooal
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kojack said:



This is the beginning of Skynet. We're all screwed.

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I've played the Quakes and Dooms, I'm not worried. Unreal Tournament had better AI. 🙂



That's because John didn't do the AI, he called on Mr.Elusive for that.
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This is the beginning of Skynet. We're all screwed.

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Bah! Beat me to it! lol 😄