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Andrej Karpathy

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3433 total appearances

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

I'm similar for that matter.

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

I really liked school.

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

I loved learning things, et cetera.

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

I wanted to stay in school.

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

Because it feels bad to bounce from material.

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

It feels bad.

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

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

Dwarkesh Podcast
Andrej Karpathy β€” 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.

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

So I think that's a pretty broad topic.

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

I do feel like there's basically, I almost feel like there are 10, 20 tips and tricks that I kind of semi-consciously probably do.

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

But I guess like on a high level, I always try to, I think a lot of this comes from my physics background.

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

I really, really did enjoy my physics background.

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

I have a whole rant when I think how everyone should learn physics in early school education, because I think early school education is not about

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

crumbling knowledge or memory for tasks later in the industry.