Was this the “Karpathy Moment” for the AI Industry ?
Who is Andrej Karpathy ? Born in Slovakia and despite only 38 years young/old, he is already an AI “Veteran” having initially studied under AI Godfather Geoff Hinton in Canada, did internships at Google Brain and DeepMind, Co-founded OpenAI, was leading AI at Tesla, went back to OpenAi and now is focusing on teaching AI to everyone who would listen.
Since I discovered his Youtube educational Videos, I am following him because when he speaks about something, there is always a lot to learn.
Yesterday, he did a 2 hour interview with maybe the best current “AI Podcaster” Dwarkesh Patel. Those two hours are quite dense and I had to use Gemini in parallel to understand some of the stuff, but at least on my Twitter timeline, it raised quite a “storm in the teacup” among AI “experts.
Here are some of his main talking points (as far as I understood them):