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Andrej Karpathy

What Andrej Karpathy thinks about AGI

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  1. Our readingModel intelligence should speciate like the animal kingdom rather than converge on one oracle that knows everything.

    Their wordsI do think we should expect more speciation in the intelligences. Um like, you know, the animal kingdom is extremely diverse in the brains that exist and there's lots of different niches of of nature and some animals have overdeveloped visual cortex or other part kind of parts and I think we we should be able to see more speciation and um you don't need like this oracle that knows everything.

    ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 12th of 20 in this recording

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  3. Our readingQuietly dropping physical work from the definition of AGI is a major concession, not a clarification.

    Their wordsNow, number one, the first concession that people make all the time is they just take out all the physical stuff because we're just talking about digital knowledge work. I feel like that's a pretty major concession compared to the original definition which was like any task a human can do.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 18th of 30 in this recording

  5. Our readingWe are already in an intelligence explosion and have been for decades, so AI will show up as more of the same exponential rather than a break in it.

    Their wordsI do, but it's business as usual because we're we're in an intelligence explosion already and have been for decades. And when you look at GDP, it's basically the GDP curve that is an exponential weighted sum over so many aspects of the industry. Everything is gradually being automated has been for hundreds of years.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 23rd of 30 in this recording