r/MachineLearning - "[D]" John Carmack stepping down as Oculus CTO to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI)

John Carmack is without a doubt one of the best software engineers the world has ever seen. How he fares will ultimately come down to whether our current block on developing AGI is caused by engineering, hardware, or theory (or a combination thereof). If it's just a matter of fitting together the pieces we've already developed in the right way then he honestly has a chance at making some headway. If it turns out we need substantially more computing power or more theoretical insight on the nature of intelligence then this is going to be pretty futile.