What Andrej Karpathy thinks about computer vision

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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. 17 Oct 2025

   Our readingHinton's prediction that radiology would stop being a job was wrong: radiologists are alive, well and growing in number.

   Their wordsso a good example recently was um Jeff Hinton's prediction that radiologists would not be a job anymore and this turned out to be very wrong in a bunch of ways right so radiologists are alive and well and growing even though computer vision is really really good at recognizing all the different things that they have to recognize

   ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 19th of 30 in this recording

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3. 25 Sept 2025, 14:29 UTC

   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