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Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by abadpoli »

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…

Education and communication is important. It brings new people into the field, and helps grow those that are already part of the field, both of which are essential to long term growth and progress. Using phrases like “actual contribution” to refer to non-educational acts is entirely dismissive to the role that great educators play to in the march for progress. Where would you be today if such education was unavailable?

He contributed to pushing forward AI, no “actual” about it. The loss of a great educator should be viewed with just as much sadness as the loss of a great engineer.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by laborcontract »

iaseiadit wrote: post #34
georgehill wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Hm, well, I see on his resume that he was a founder of OpenAI, recruited to be Tesla's head of AI, went back to OpenAI, and also has the most viewed educational videos in this space.

So, he has made theoretical contributions to the space, contributions to prominent private organizations in the space, and broadly educated others about the space. What more are you looking for?

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by bbor »

I'm judging from his pinned tweet, "The hottest new programming language is English", that "those of you who know me know what I'm working on ;)" message at the end of this seems like a nod to developer tools of some kind. Which would track for a tech visionary, a hacker can't resist making himself better tools I guess.

Anybody have better info than my idle guess?

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

"I told them Xerox has got to get itself together, because there's no way a big company can take advantage of things moving this fast. People will get frustrated and start their own companies."

—Carver Mead, 1979 (employee at Xerox PARC), discussing why Xerox needed to focus more on adopting integrated circuits into the computers they had already developed, instead of continuing to just make increasingly-obsolete copiers.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by throwtroawat »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #21
throwtroawat wrote: post #17

Karpathy is a great instructor, but has he has any meaningful impact in industry? It seems from the outside like he locked Tesla into a losing, NN-only direction for autonomous driving. (I don’t know what he did at openai.)

What makes you say it’s a losing direction?

A popular take in autonomous driving is the thing preventing Tesla from breaking beyond level two autonomous driving is its aversion to lidar, which is a direct result of its nn preference.

(Eg Mercedes has achieved level 3 already).

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by p1esk »

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…

his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI

He did pioneering research in image captioning - aligning visual and textual semantic spaces - the conceptual foundation of modern image generators. He also did an excellent analysis of RNNs - one of the first and best explanations of what happens under the hood of a language model.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by next_xibalba »

bbor wrote: post #43

I'm judging from his pinned tweet, "The hottest new programming language is English", that "those of you who know me know what I'm working on ;)" message at the end of this seems like a nod to developer tools of some kind. Which would track for a tech visionary, a hacker can't resist making himself better tools I guess. Anybody have better info than my idle guess?

He has speculated a few times about an LLM based OS. That’d be way cool.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by esalman »

bbor wrote: post #43

I'm judging from his pinned tweet, "The hottest new programming language is English", that "those of you who know me know what I'm working on ;)" message at the end of this seems like a nod to developer tools of some kind. Which would track for a tech visionary, a hacker can't resist making himself better tools I guess. Anybody have better info than my idle guess?

He'll become a full time YouTuber.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by p1esk »

jprd wrote: post #37
option wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :(

These two individuals can probably raise a billion dollars within a month if they wanted to start their own AI company.
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