Andrej Karpathy: Summoning Ghosts, Not Animals

Chapters

1. 01Why agents will take a decadeKarpathy says today's agents are impressive but unfinished, and recalls early agent efforts that came too soon.0:28
2. 02Ghosts, not animalsKarpathy argues models imitate human data rather than evolve, and wants a leaner cognitive core.2:44
3. 03Why coding agents fell shortKarpathy says models were little help building his NanoChat repo, and calls much industry hype slop.4:33
4. 04Why RL is terribleKarpathy calls reinforcement learning noisy, "sucking supervision through a straw", and easy for models to game.6:35
5. 05AGI blends into 2% growthKarpathy expects AI to blend into the usual GDP curve; Dwarkesh argues true AGI could break it.8:34
6. 06Why self-driving took so longKarpathy, who led Tesla's effort, describes a march of nines and says self-driving is far from done.10:20
7. 07The future of educationKarpathy is building a school, Eureka, and hopes AI tutors let everyone go much further.11:57