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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

Like right now, you have powerlifters who go extreme on this direction.

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

So what is powerlifting in a cognitive era?

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

Maybe it's people who are really trying to make Olympics out of knowing stuff.

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

Like...

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

And if you have a perfect AI tutor, maybe you can get extremely far.

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

I almost feel like we're just barely... The geniuses of today are barely scratching the surface of what a human mind can do, I think.

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

I'm similar for that matter.

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

I mean, a lot of people, for example, hate school and want to get out of it.

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

I really liked school.

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

I loved learning things, et cetera.

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

I wanted to stay in school.

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

I stayed all the way until PhD, and then they wouldn't let me stay longer, so I went to the industry.

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

But I mean, basically, roughly speaking, I love learning, even for the sake of learning, but I also love learning because it's a form of empowerment and being useful and productive.

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

Because it feels bad to bounce from material.

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

It feels bad.

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

You get negative reward from sinking an amount of time in something and this doesn't pan out.

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

Or like being completely bored because what you're getting is too easy or too hard.

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

So I think, yeah, I think when you actually do it properly, learning feels good.

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

And I think it's a technical problem to get there.

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

And I think for a while it's going to be AI plus human collab, and at some point maybe it's just AI.