Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited for Karpathy's first-hand explanations of camera-only self-driving, transformers and ML trends.
What it is
Lex Fridman's long conversation with Andrej Karpathy on Tesla's self-driving approach, Optimus, neural networks, transformers, AGI and more. It also touches on his OpenAI work and working with Elon Musk.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2022 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec tdalaa · 2023-01 · on “Will Tesla Ever “Solve” Full Self Driving? (2022)”
Anyone seriously interested in this question should listen to the Lex Friedman interview of Andrej Karpathy: [this video]
Recommends jcims · 2022-11 · on “Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain”
Andrej Karpathy was recently on Lex Fridman's podcast and covered this to some extent. He has the same perspective on this topic and expanded on it quite a bit. Great listen overall IMHO - [this video] I like his idea of finding 0-days in physics. :)
Recommends meken · 2022-12 · on “”
My understanding is the transformer layer in the LLM is basically doing something akin to message passing, it’s like a mini computer. In predicting the next word, it has to understand a lot about a lot of different kinds of topics My understanding is kinda fuzzy because I haven’t coded it up myself, but this was the takeaway I got from this explanation (starts at 36:21) [this video]
Cites jstx1 · 2022-10 · on “Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI”
At 1:03:30 - [this video] > I think there's definitely scope in building a better search engine today. Google have all the tools, all the people, (...) all the data, it's just not obvious that they're capable as an organization to innovate on their search engine right now, and if they don't, someone else will. There's absolutely scope to build a better search engine based on these tools.
Cites nverno · 2022-11 · on “Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended”
If you want to get an idea, why not listen to some engineers that have worked with him? There are plenty of those around, for example, Andrej Karpathy talked a bit about working with Elon recently - [this video]
Cites nuccy · 2022-11 · on “Stable Diffusion 2.0”
As pointed out in [1], it seems machine learning takes the same path as physics already did. In the mid-20th century there was a "break" in physics, before individuals were making ground breaking discoveries in their private/personal labs (think Newton, Maxwell, Curie, Roentgen, Planck, Einstein, and many others) later huge collaborations (LHC/CERN, Icecube, EHT, et al.) are required, since the machinery, simulations, models are so complex, that groups of people are needed to create, comprehend and use them. 1. [this video] Lex Fridman podcast with Andrej Karpathy P.S. To counteract that (unintentionally actually, likely because of a simple optimization of instruments' duty cycle) in astronomy pe
Cites Tepix · 2023-03 · on “Microsoft Kosmos-1: A Multimodal Large Language Model”
Yeah, check out the Lex Friedman podcast episode #333 around minute 52 where Andrew Karpathy talks about the OpenAI project "World of Bits" that did this. [this video]
Cites 1970-01-01 · 2023-03 · on “GPT-4 System Card [pdf]”
>your boyfriend’s only in a wheelchair because he doesn’t want to kneel five times a day Within the roast context, this is a good line. Humor was one of the tests Karpathy would use as a benchmark for AI: [this video]