Andrej Karpathy

That said, evolution has found that it is very useful to predict and have a predictive model in the brain.

And so I think our brain utilizes something that looks like that as a part of it.

but it has a lot more, you know, gadgets and gizmos and value functions and ancient nuclei that are all trying to like make it survive and reproduce and everything else.

Certainly, I would say it's an extremely remarkable story that I'm only briefly learning about recently.

All the way from... Actually, you almost have to start at the formation of Earth and all of its conditions and the entire solar system and how everything is arranged with Jupiter and Moon and the habitable zone and everything.

And then you have an active Earth that's turning over material.

And then you start with abiogenesis and everything.

So it's all a pretty remarkable story.

I'm not sure that...

I can pick a single unique piece of it that I find most interesting.

I guess for me, as an artificial intelligence researcher, it's probably the last piece.

We have lots of animals that are not building technological society, but we do.

And it seems to have happened very quickly.

It seems to have happened very recently.

something very interesting happened there that I don't fully understand.

I almost understand everything else, I think intuitively, but I don't understand exactly that part and how quick it was.

Yeah, I'm hesitant to say that it is rare, by the way, but it definitely seems like

It's kind of like a punctuated equilibrium where you have lots of exploration and then you have certain leaps, sparse leaps in between.

So, of course, like origin of life would be one, you know, DNA, sex, eukaryotic life, the endosymbiosis event where the archaeon ate little bacteria, you know, just the whole thing.

And then, of course, emergence of consciousness and so on.