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This is quite the loss for OpenAI. And no one seems to have heard what Ilya Sutskever's status is at OpenAI as well.
He might be talented, but if he can’t be trusted, he needs to go.
Frankly, 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.
It is practically unusable and I'll likely cancel paid plan soon.
Let 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.
Here's a gem of educator. Check out his other videos.
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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/
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Honestly I have more faith in hacker news users than congress.
I wish more of us would run for Congress. I'd much rather have a government of technocrats of various stripes than ex lawyers and rich business types. IMO governments, like websites, should be boring but effective, focused on small day to day improvements, not all flash and empty marketing chasing cultural trends...
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Honestly I have more faith in hacker news users than congress.
I wish more of us would run for Congress. I'd much rather have a government of technocrats of various stripes than ex lawyers and rich business types. IMO governments, like websites, should be boring but effective, focused on small day to day improvements, not all flash and empty marketing chasing cultural trends...
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…
I don’t see that as an issue though, just a natural consequence of his great work in teaching neural networks!
This is quite the loss for OpenAI. And no one seems to have heard what Ilya Sutskever's status is at OpenAI as well.
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…
In 2015 he wrote this blog post about "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks": https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ That blog post inspired Alec Radford at Open AI to do the research that produced the "Unsupervised sentiment neuron": https://openai.com/research/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron Open AI decided to see what happened if they scaled up that model by leveraging the ne…
Even the HN discussion around this had comments like "this feels my baby learning to speak.." which are the same comparisons people were saying when LLMs hit mainstream in 2022
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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/
This is insane