Andrej Karpathy

With respect to intelligence and its evolution, I do think it came fairly, I mean, it's very, very recent, right?

I am surprised that it evolved.

Yeah.

I find it fascinating to think about all the worlds out there.

Like, say, there's a thousand planets like Earth and what they look like.

I think Nick Lane was here talking about some of the early parts, right?

Like, okay, he expects basically very similar life forms, roughly speaking, and bacteria-like things in most of them.

And then there's a few breaks in there.

I would expect that the evolution of intelligence intuitively feels to me like it should be a fairly rare event.

And there have been animals for... I guess maybe you should base it on how long something has existed.

So, for example, if bacteria have been around for 2 billion years and nothing happened, then going to your carrier is probably pretty hard because bacteria actually came up quite early in Earth's evolution or history.

And so I guess, how long have we had animals?

Maybe a couple hundred million years, like multicellular animals that like run, run, crawl, et cetera, which is maybe 10% of Earth's lifespan or something like that.

So maybe on that timescale, it's actually not too tricky.

I still feel like

It's still surprising to me, I think, intuitively that it developed.

I would maybe expect just a lot of like animal-like life forms doing animal-like things.

The fact that you can get something that creates culture and knowledge and accumulates it, it is surprising to me.

Yes.

Basically, it's so hard to tell, right, with any of this stuff.