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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

But I do think that with, and that's why I think it's not actually the right time to actually build this kind of an AI tutor.

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

I still think it's a useful product, and lots of people will build it.

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

But I still feel like the bar is so high, and the capability is not there.

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

But I mean, even today, I would say ChachiBT is an extremely valuable educational product.

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

But I think for me, it was so fascinating to see how high the bar is.

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

And when I was with her, I almost felt like, there's no way I can build this.

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

Anyone who's had a really good tutor is like, how are you going to build this?

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

So I guess I'm waiting for that capability.

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

I do think that in a lot of ways in the industry, for example, I did some AI consulting for computer vision.

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

A lot of my times, the value that I brought to the company was telling them not to use AI.

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

It wasn't like, I was the AI expert, and they described a problem, and I said, don't use AI.

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

This was my value add.

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

And I feel like it's the same in education right now, where I kind of feel like, for what I have in mind, it's not yet the time, but the time will come.

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

But for now, I'm building something that looks maybe a bit more conventional, that has a physical and digital component and so on.

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

But I think there's obvious, it's obvious how this should look like in the future.

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

Well, so I'm building the first course, and I want to have a really, really good course.

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

State-of-the-art, obvious state-of-the-art destination you go to learn AI, in this case, because that's just what I'm familiar with, so I think it's a really good first product to get to be really good.

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

And so that's what I'm building, and NanoChat, which you briefly mentioned, is a capstone project of LLM101N, which is a class that I'm building.

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

So that's a really big piece of it, but now I have to build out a lot of the intermediates, and then I have to actually, like, hire a small team of, you know, TAs and so on, and actually, like, build the entire course.

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

And maybe one more thing that I would say is, like, many times when people think about education, they think about sort of, like, the more...