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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

hart_russell wrote: post #199
Traster wrote: post #27

Karpathy is probably one of the biggest names in AI, I do wonder where he fits now. He's sort of bounced around Tesla back to OpenAI back to independent. He sort of left OpenAI before it really hit the inflection point, and he was at Tesla for a long time and they didn't really deliver what they wanted on the AI side. Now he's bounced around a few places. I understand that the leaders in this market play this silly g…

The self drive on my Tesla is damn near perfect. I haven’t driven my car in around 6 months.

FWIW while Karpathy was at Tesla he was basically working on the vision component. The actual driving component (using vision as an input) was originally all C++. They may have started migrating parts of the driving component from C++ to neural networks while Karpathy was there, but most of it happened after he left in 2022, with the big switch being FSD 12 in 2024. User reports from before/after FSD 12 are like night and day.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

davidatbu wrote: post #202
kingkongjaffa wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> creating magic everywhere they go Like specifically what has he done?

I can spare a minute :). This isn't exhaustive because this is just stuff I know of, obviously. - At Stanford, Led research on the first (to my knowledge) crop of joint image/text models. Super widely cited work. - At Tesla, led their whole self driving effort for a while, came up with critical techniques that allowed them to make progress (e.g., the concept of "auto labelling": using a much larger NN to generate tra…

Thank you!

I was more looking for signal that him + Anthropic might yield something beyond a step-change from Opus 4.7 (disappointing so far). We have not gotten to use Mythos yet, I wonder if that will become Opus 5 or something.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by woah »

redanddead wrote: post #140
sigmar wrote: post #90

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>OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, the guys have actual taste. Can you cite specifics? "I won't speak bad about someone, but also won't speak good about others" resulted in a comment that seems to contribute nothing

I judge them from a meritocratic lens. I’m hoping Karpathy will make Claude Code better, in the meantime I’m super happy seeing a small product manager like Tibo fucking crushing it on Codex

Where are you following the comings and goings of small no name product managers like it's a baseball team?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by ray_v »

raincole wrote: post #230
nightski wrote: post #228

Anyone else fearing Anthropic more and more each day? Not from a perspective that they are doing so well, but rather that it's like an industry tornado, sucking up and destroying everything in it's path.

Name three things they destroyed?

1-3) my free time (too busy using Claude Code)

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by nvme0n1p1 »

raincole wrote: post #230
nightski wrote: post #228

Anyone else fearing Anthropic more and more each day? Not from a perspective that they are doing so well, but rather that it's like an industry tornado, sucking up and destroying everything in it's path.

Name three things they destroyed?

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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by Sol- »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #95
reducesuffering wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AGI around the corner. Comparatively little point educating people instead of machines

If someone knew AGI was around the corner they'd be buying an island and a yacht not taking on a job.

But surely being part of the birth of AGI would be more interesting than sitting on a yacht, which you can do for the rest of your life post AGI?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by NoImmatureAdHom »

Andrej: Guys, thank you for the interest but I'm really focused on this education thing rn

Anthropic: Okay, let's add two zeroes

Andrej: I am very excited to join Anthropic!

(I do not blame him, I think this is reasonable, I find the whole money-falling-from-the-sky thing amusing :-)

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by pixelsort »

kmaitreys wrote: post #77
canada_dry wrote: post #60

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> just becomes a glorified marketer That implies Karpathy is either dumb or desperate and he is neither of those by a long shot.

> https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519... Last thing I saw Karpathy talk about was this, which I find hard to believe that it came from a smart person.

Yes, that's probably his dumbest public idea to date. Given that this GPT repos and parts of autoresearch are brilliant I'm sympathetic. I think he's earned the right to exhibit mild expressions of AI psychosis at this point.

And, my objection was that he clearly had no understanding of the supply-chain risk he was worsening by advocating widespread use of Obsidian for agentic engineering tasks.

Since his announcement, Obsidian has taken proactive steps to mitigate the risks, or at least study threat model. Hopefully, they will implement proper RBAC or something before someone else with his visibility announces an even more irresponsible half-baked idea.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by TrackerFF »

gyomu wrote: post #127

We are in the early stages of AI. Anthropic is Altavista and OpenAI is AskJeeves or something. 10-20 years from now the scene will be unrecognizable and all of this will be inconsequential but at the same time it is the fondation on which tomorrow is built.

Well, one big difference now is that you need to billions to become the next big player. The barriers to entry are incredibly high, if you plan on competing against the big players.

Of course, there could be some future lab or startup which completely revolutionizes the field by going for some approach that doesn't require a boatload of money to train a model, but for now, we're stuck with the LLMs and the costs they come with..

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