Andrej inspires millions. He’s the Taylor Swift of AI/NNs. I really hope he’s next gig is at an actually Open AI company.
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Would you cringe if he’d said “the Michael Jordan of AI”? Perhaps you cringing says more about you?
Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
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#102Please excuse me for asking this. I know Andrej is an excellent instructor. I've watched his videos. But what has been his contribution to the industry (besides teaching of course)?
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Examples? (I'm not that familiar with field.)
Andrej Karpathy is badmephisto, a name you might have heard of if you're into cubing. http://badmephisto.com/
i saw this comment and literally shouted “holy fucking shit” — i use zz method, but i came across lots of his resources before!!!
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#104Sounds like he wants to focus on teaching.
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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 :(
Being "open" isn't necessarily incompatible with earning profits. It can in fact be beneficial.
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#106Vested his rsu and left
he was a director at Tesla when the stock 10xed.
The guy has many tens of millions of dollars most likely.
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#107Unpopular 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, I’m not so sure about.
I mean, I don't know why people still try to devalue educating the masses. Anyone who's had to knowledge share know how hard it is to make a concise but approachable explanation for someone who knows relatively little about the field.
In addition, he's still probably in a standing well above the 80% mark in terms of technical prowess. even without influencer fame I'm sure he can get into any studio he wishes.
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#108Frankly, 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.
But no one cares about 3.5. It’s an order of magnitude worse than 4. An order of magnitude is a lot harder to catch up with.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But no one cares about 3.5. It’s an order of magnitude worse than 4. An order of magnitude is a lot harder to catch up with.
Yeah but for how long… at this rate I would expect some of the freely distributed models to hit gpt4 levels in as little as 3-6 months.
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#110Let 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…
>He should teach more, and take it seriously.
if only we compensated that knowledge properly. Youtube seems to come the closest, but Youtube educators also show how much time you have to spend attracting views instead of teaching expertise.
> It makes you a target for offers and opportunities because of your name/influence, but not necessarily because of your underlying "best fit"
That's unfortunately life in a nutshell. The best fits rarely end up getting any given position. May be overqualified, filtered out in the HR steps, or rejected for some ephemeral reason (making them RTO, not accepting their counteroffer, potentially illegal factors behind closed doors, etc).
it's a crappy game so I don't blame anyone for using whatever cards they are dealt.