Andrej Karpathy
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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Where they publish
- karpathy.aiSite Bio, talks and papers.
- Andrej Karpathy blogBlog The long technical write-ups, including the ones people still cite.
- karpathy.bearblog.devBlog Current blog, and the source the quotes on this site were compiled from.
- @karpathyX Where the threads that get quoted everywhere start.
- Andrej KarpathyYouTube The multi-hour build-it-from-scratch lectures.
- karpathyGitHub nanoGPT, micrograd, and the teaching repos.
What they are on record saying
15 positions on record. Every one is a word-for-word quote linked to where it was said — that is what this site calls a korent.
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People disagreeing about AI capability are speaking past each other, because they are using models of very different tiers on very different kinds of task.
TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other.
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AI will let citizens make their governments legible and accountable, reversing the historical direction in which only states could read society.
Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.
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Because an LLM can argue almost any direction competently, the right way to use one for forming an opinion is to make it argue every side.
The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and…