Andrej Karpathy

Okay, Starfleet Academy is this elite institution for frontier technology, building spaceships and graduating cadets to be the pilots of these spaceships and whatnot.

So I just imagine an elite institution for technical knowledge and basically a kind of school that's very up-to-date and very like a premier institution.

Yeah.

With respect to Eureka, I think one thing that is very fascinating to me about education is I do think education will pretty fundamentally change with AIs on the side.

And I think it has to be rewired and changed to some extent.

I still think that we're pretty early.

I think there's going to be a lot of people who are going to try to do the obvious things, which is like, oh, have an LLM and ask it questions and do all the basic things that you would do via prompting right now.

I think it's helpful, but it still feels to me a bit like slop.

I'd like to do it properly, and I think the capability is not there for what I would want.

What I'd want is like an actual tutor experience.

Maybe a prominent example in my mind is I was recently learning Korean, so language learning.

And I went through a phase where I was learning Korean by myself on the internet.

I went through a phase where I was actually part of a small class in Korea, taking Korean with a bunch of other people, which was really funny.

But we had a teacher and like 10 people or so taking Korean.

And then I switched to a one-on-one tutor.

And I guess what was fascinating to me is I think I had a really good tutor, but I mean, just thinking through like what this tutor was doing for me and how incredible that experience was and how high the bar is for like what I actually want to build eventually.

Because I mean, she was extremely, so she instantly from a very short conversation understood like where I am as a student, what I know and don't know.

And she was able to like probe exactly like the kinds of questions or things to understand my world model.

No LLM will do that for you 100% right now, not even close, right?

But a tutor will do that if they're good.