Andrej Karpathy

Yeah, I think the tricky thing is some people really love you.

Some people, unfortunately, you're working on something that you think is extremely valuable, useful, et cetera.

Some people do hate you.

There's a lot of people who hate me and the team and the whole project.

In many cases, they're not, actually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Some people are also very negative and very vocal.

So they're very prominently featured.

But actually, there's a ton of people who are cheerleaders, but they're silent cheerleaders.

And when you talk to people just in the world, they will tell you, oh, it's amazing.

It's great.

Especially like people who understand how difficult it is to get this stuff working.

Like people who have built products and makers, entrepreneurs, like making this work and changing something.

is incredibly hard.

Those people are more likely to cheerlead you.

Yes.

Yeah, I think it's really hard to work on robotics in an academic setting.

Actually, I don't know that I recall the specific instance where I was unhappy or criticizing ImageNet.

I think ImageNet has been extremely valuable.