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Andrej Karpathy

What Andrej Karpathy thinks about AI and jobs

@andrej-karpathy · 66 positions · 0 changes of mind

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 readingHow verifiable a task is now predicts how automatable it is, the way specifiability predicted it in the 1980s.

    Their wordsThe more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm.

    ↗Verifiabilitykarpathy.bearblog.dev

    Interesting
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  3. Our readingPredictions that AI would eliminate radiology jobs were wrong; radiology is growing.

    Their wordsExpectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing.

    ↗@karpathy on Xx.com

    Interesting

  5. Our readingMost current predictions about AI's imminent impact on the job market are naive.

    Their wordsThere are a lot of imo naive predictions out there on the imminent impact of AI on the job market.

    ↗@karpathy on Xx.com

    Interesting