John Carmack (Co-founder of id Software, former CTO of Oculus) outlines the current research directions for his new company, Keen Technologies. Carmack shares his unique journey into the world of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and explains why he believes reinforcement learning, tested on classic Atari games, holds critical answers for the future of AI. Carmack's talk provides a transparent look at the engineering and scientific challenges in AI research, including the "missteps" and key learnings from building physical robotic systems to play Atari. Carmack dives deep into the unsolved problems of sequential multi-task learning, sparse rewards, and function approximation, offering a candid perspective on why current models like LLMs are not the final answer. He concludes with a powerful call to action for researchers to collaborate on new, more effective benchmarks to push the field forward.