Andrej Karpathy

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

So I guess I'm waiting for that capability.

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

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

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

This was my value add.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

what I would say is like kind of a softer component of like diffusing knowledge or like, but I actually have something very hard and technical in mind.

And so in my mind, education is kind of like the very difficult technical like process of building ramps to knowledge.

So in my mind, NanoChat is a ramp to knowledge because it's a very simple, it's like the super simplified full stack thing.

If you give this artifact to someone and they like look through it, they're learning a ton of stuff.

Yeah.

And so it's giving you a lot of what I call Eurekas per second, which is like understanding per second.