I like John Carmack, he's a very clear thinker. Here's him on his new AI company: https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/

He seems to be taking the Pablo approach — taking time, throwing things and seeing what sticks.

Bonus tidbit from the article, apparently Twitter runs on 20 million lines of Scala 😂