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Andrej Karpathy

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

Yeah.

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

Well, you have a chance to try yourself, and you have an appreciation when I give you the solution.

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

And it maximizes the amount of knowledge per new fact added.

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

That's right, yeah.

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

well as the curse of knowledge and expertise yeah this is a real phenomenon and i actually suffered from it myself as much as i try to not not suffer from it but you take certain things for granted and you can't put yourself in the shoes of new of people who are just starting out and this is pervasive it happens to me as well one thing that i actually think is extremely helpful as an example someone was trying to show me a paper in biology recently and i just had instantly so many terrible questions so what i did was i used chat gpt to ask the questions with the with the paper in the context window

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

And then it worked through some of the simple things.

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

And then I actually shared the thread to the person who shared it, who actually like wrote that paper or like worked on that work.

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

And I almost feel like it was like, like if they can see the dumb questions I had, it might help them explain better in the future or something like that.

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

Because, so for example, for my material, I would love if people shared their dumb conversations with Chachi PT about the stuff that I've created, because it really helps me put myself again in the shoes of someone who's starting out.

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

To say the thing.

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

Yeah.

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

Actually, I saw that tweet.

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

I thought it was really good.

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

I shared it with a bunch of people, actually.

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

I think it was really good.

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

And I noticed this many, many times.

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

Maybe the most prominent example is I remember back in my PhD days doing research, et cetera.

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

You read someone's paper, right?

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

And you work to understand what it's doing, et cetera.

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

And then you catch them.