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Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh Patel: Why Agents Take a Decade

Why pre-training and gradient descent produce ghosts rather than agents: Karpathy maps the biological gaps that make the decade of agents the honest frame.

Andrej KarpathyguestDwarkesh Patelhost
Oct 17, 20252h 26mWatch on YouTube ↗

CHAPTERS

  1. 0:00 – 30:33

    AGI is still a decade away

  2. 30:33 – 40:53

    LLM cognitive deficits

  3. 40:53 – 50:26

    RL is terrible

  4. 50:26 – 1:07:13

    How do humans learn?

  5. 1:07:13 – 1:18:24

    AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth

  6. 1:18:24 – 1:33:38

    ASI

  7. 1:33:38 – 1:43:43

    Evolution of intelligence & culture

  8. 1:43:43 – 1:57:08

    Why self driving took so long

  9. 1:57:08 – 2:26:07

    Future of education

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