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Andrej Karpathy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3419 total appearances

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Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

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

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

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.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

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.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

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

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

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

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

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

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

Once she understands, she actually like really served me all the things that I needed at my current sliver of capability.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

I need to be always appropriately challenged.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

I can't be faced with something too hard or too trivial.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

And a tutor is really good at serving you just the right stuff.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

And so basically I felt like I was the only constraint to learning, like my own.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

I was the only constraint.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

I was always given the perfect information.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

I'm the only constraint.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

And I felt good because I'm the only impediment that exists.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

It's not that I can't find knowledge or that it's not properly explained or et cetera.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

Like it's just my ability to memorize and so on.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

And this is what I want for people.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

How do you automate that?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy โ€” AGI is still a decade away

So a very good question about the current capability, you don't.