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Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by the_arun »

georgehill wrote: post #25
dontreact wrote: post #19

Unpopular opinion… but IMO almost all of Karpathy’s fame an influence come from being an incredible educator and communicator. Relative to his level of fame, his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI, I’m not so sure about. I deeply appreciate his educational content and I’m glad that it has led to a way for him to gain influence and sustain a career. Hopefully he’s rich enough from that that he c…

> Relative to his level of fame, his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI, I’m not so sure about. Are you sure about your perspective? https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

May be this is what you wanted to share? https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l8WuQJgAAAAJ&hl=en

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by iaseiadit »

georgehill wrote: post #25
dontreact wrote: post #19

Unpopular opinion… but IMO almost all of Karpathy’s fame an influence come from being an incredible educator and communicator. Relative to his level of fame, his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI, I’m not so sure about. I deeply appreciate his educational content and I’m glad that it has led to a way for him to gain influence and sustain a career. Hopefully he’s rich enough from that that he c…

> Relative to his level of fame, his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI, I’m not so sure about. Are you sure about your perspective? https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

ImageNet was very influential, but this just shows he was eighth author on a twelve author paper from almost a decade ago. Is there better evidence of sustained contributions to the field?

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by jprd »

option wrote: post #29
krick wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funded by what?

investors will line up to fund them. I'd be happy to chip in in "friends and family" round too :)

Investors will line-up to fund a lack of return on their investment? I'd absolutely donate, but that's not what investors want for their money, unfortunately :(

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by Imnimo »

skybrian wrote: post #36
Imnimo wrote: post #10

Every time Karpathy quits his job, the field takes a leap forward because he makes some fantastic educational resource in his free time.

Examples? (I'm not that familiar with field.)

The most recent is this, which I believe was made after he left Tesla:

https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

And it's accompanying video series:

https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

Another example (although I honestly don't remember if he made this one between jobs) is: https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by joss82 »

skybrian wrote: post #36
Imnimo wrote: post #10

Every time Karpathy quits his job, the field takes a leap forward because he makes some fantastic educational resource in his free time.

Examples? (I'm not that familiar with field.)

Neural Networks: from zero to hero

https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by jdd33 »

choppaface wrote: post #33
jakobov wrote: post #13

Vested his rsu and left

And got very bored and unhappy with big company issues. And has the perspective from his time at Tesla to know how things only get worse for creativity at that stage.

Its not a good thing if true. Tech and creative folk have to find ways to stick around or the financial folk fill the leadership and decision making space.
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