Is this a bad sign from OpenAI because he knows future products and company direction? Knowing his past from Tesla he seem to like to do world changing things..
Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
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#92He quit to build a blogging platform. https://x.com/karpathy/status/1751350002281300461?s=20
Likely as a side thing
Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
#93Vested his rsu and left
He is one of OpenAI founders. I don’t think he needs to vest anything.
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#94Unpopular 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.
He lead a team of one of the most common uses of DNNs, if that isn't 'pushing AI forward', I think you're confused. It's certainly pushing it forward quite a bit more than the publishing game where 99% of the papers are ignored by the people actually building real applications of AI.
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#95Unpopular 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…
A hackernews comment section is one of the least legitimate forums imaginable for the public reading of somebody's resume. Congress, maybe.
Honestly I have more faith in hacker news users than congress.
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#96Frankly, OpenAI seems to be losing its luster, and fast. Plugins were a failure. GPTs are a little better, but I still don't see the product market fit. GPT-4 is still king, but not by that much any more. It's not even clear that they're doing great research, because they don't publish. GPT-5 has to be incredibly good at this point, and I'm not sure that it will be.
Running Ollama with a 80gb mistral model works as well if not better than ChatGPT 3.5. This is a good thing for the world IMO as the magic is no longer held just OpenAI. The speed at which competitors have caught up in even the last 3 months is astounding.
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#97Unpopular 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…
I would argue that's far more valuable.
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#98Let me say, he's a great teacher! I took a CV class with him. He should teach more, and take it seriously. Being a popular AI influencer is not necessarily correlated with being a good researcher though. And I would argue there is a strong indication that it is negatively correlated with being a good business leader / founder. Here's to hoping he chills out and goes back to the sorely needed lost art of explaining co…
Sometimes I wish as a profession we valued teaching more. I would love to teach, but not do research, and make a living.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 1979 ... increasingly-obsolete copiers. In 1979, I doubt copiers were 'increasingly obsolete'; I'd expect the market was growing rapidly. Laser printers, email, the Internet, didn't yet exist; PCs barely existed, and not in offices. Almost everywhere would have used typewriters, I suppose.
Xerox's copier sales peak was in the early 70's, and then multiple international companies [primarily in Japan] began creating better, less expensive copiers. By the late 70's, Xerox was massively losing marketshare [to both competitors, and to blossoming word processing technologies]. >Laser printers, email, the Internet, didn't yet exist Actually, all three did; the latter was in the form of ARPANET [to be technica…
One of us needs sources, and I think it's you :)
> Actually, all three did; the latter was in the form of ARPANET [to be technical, not "The Internet"].
True, but a technicality. Very few people knew they even existed, and they had zero impact on Xerox copier sales.
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#100Let me say, he's a great teacher! I took a CV class with him. He should teach more, and take it seriously. Being a popular AI influencer is not necessarily correlated with being a good researcher though. And I would argue there is a strong indication that it is negatively correlated with being a good business leader / founder. Here's to hoping he chills out and goes back to the sorely needed lost art of explaining co…
I think good teachers make great researchers, because they have to understand their field very well, they anticipate and ask themselves the questions that need to be asked, they manage to always see their field with fresh eyes, they are good collaborators, and most importantly, good communicators.