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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by kopirgan »

joe_mamba wrote: post #496
wodenokoto wrote: post #487

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Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? It might be Elon who went and said that and said they don’t need lidar, but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features.

>Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? That I also want to know. He bailed out of Tesla right when the limitations of his "LIDAR-less cameras only self driving" system were becoming obvious, and nobody asked him about the hindsight of this obvious fuckup. >but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features. Exact…

Guess his boyish looks and his videos educating outsiders and students about AI contributed..

Elon makes it so easy to hate him as much as to admire. No comparison.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by kopirgan »

weinzierl wrote: post #392
tedggh wrote: post #207

He’s a great educator and seems like a genuinely nice guy, at least on interviews. I hope he continues with his teaching career on the side, although the crazy amount of NDAs he probably had to sign may make that effort a bit difficult.

He is a great educator, not only for ML. He taught speedcubing under the badmefisto pseudonym.

Guess these prodigys have brains that are cross functional. Like Magnus Carlsen predicting premier league.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by DesaiAshu »

stingraycharles wrote: post #489
ollin wrote: post #246

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Specifically it looks like he's planning to extend the ideas from https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch into a larger effort towards recursive training improvement [1]: > Excited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He'll be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself. I can’t think of anyone better suited to do it — looking forward to what we build together! [1] https:/…

Am I the only one who wasn’t particularly impressed by AutoResearch? If you looked at what the agent was actually doing, it was just tuning parameters mostly, not really trying different novel approaches. I couldn’t help myself but consider this mostly a very inefficient variant of hyperparameter optimization, but someone correct me if I’m wrong, I may be looking at this too pessimistic.

Inefficient variants with $100m+ worth of compute will still probably outperform the best team of researchers

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by Fricken »

joe_mamba wrote: post #496
wodenokoto wrote: post #487

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? It might be Elon who went and said that and said they don’t need lidar, but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features.

>Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? That I also want to know. He bailed out of Tesla right when the limitations of his "LIDAR-less cameras only self driving" system were becoming obvious, and nobody asked him about the hindsight of this obvious fuckup. >but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features. Exact…

With a cursory glance at Tesla's hardware the rest of the self driving car industry quickly surmised that it was at the time nowhere near sufficient to to deliver L4 autonomy, and that's before sensor modalities entered the equation. Karpathy was either BSing for money, or he actually believed the hype. Either way it was a bad look.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by fennecbutt »

saberience wrote: post #336
resiros wrote: post #87

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I think you are underestimating both the value of both projects (autoresearch and personal wiki) just because they are simple. I see both POCs for continuous learning / optmization on the harness layer, which in my opinion is a very interesting direction. I think Andrej has the experience (and now ressources) to productionize this research into something very interesting. p.s. called it > Karpathy will help launch a…

Those projects are a complete joke. Neither of them were even original, people have been playing around with those ideas for well over a year. They just became "famous" because Karpathy is effectively an AI celebrity, so he could throw shit at a wall and post it on X and it would get 10k Github stars. But seriously, people have been using the models to tweak hyperparemeters, or using LLMs to help create a second brai…

Agree. Watch people glaze him tho. Same as John Carmack who is supposedly brilliant but hasn't actually really done anything since Doom.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by fennecbutt »

canada_dry wrote: post #60
prodigycorp wrote: post #35

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i wouldn't be surprised if he just becomes a glorified marketer for anthro. im also going to guess that whatever research he does would be free roam research that primarily serves to market the fact that claude was able to help perform the research. the visible stuff he's been working on has been mostly agent soft skills. off the top of my head is autoresearch and his the wiki knowledge stuff. nothing particularly gr…

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

CEOs also get paid millions and billions to do nothing. Sooooo...

"Improve yourself, no mistakes" in a loop. Woooah sooo revolutionary...

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by nsoonhui »

mannanj wrote: post #416
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #366

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I wonder if he had to answer a few Leetcode / Codility problems first.

Would have been great to hear that his inability to do the interview memorization bullshit as a senior was why he didn't get hired somewhere like OpenAI. lol. Except the good companies probably dont make you do silly stupid outdated interview practices without the tools you can actually use on the job today, right?

I'm not sure what's your point since he is the co-founder of OpenAI

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by ElProlactin »

csa wrote: post #514
OkWing99 wrote: post #480

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1. Figma (in progress) 2. Most entry level jobs for current graduates in white collar fields. (See hiring rates for these positions) 3. Thousands of layoffs (mostly attributed to AI use, while not 100%, the Anthropic's specific marketing push has a huge influence on this - unlike OAI and other labs) 4. All low-code products/startups 5. Web agencies who did small websites for local businesses While AI industry push is…

> 1. Figma (in progress) Hmmm… maybe. I think not. It really depends on your other claims below, with which I mostly disagree. 2. Most entry level jobs for current graduates in white collar fields. (See hiring rates for these positions) Maybe a small amount. Entry level white collar jobs have a low hiring rate for other reasons, imho. 3. Thousands of layoffs (mostly attributed to AI use, while not 100%, the Anthropic…

I personally know several digital marketing people who were "tech savvy" but had no programming experience who have launched websites that would have cost them thousands of dollars to build.

So much of what you'd previously pay a "real" freelance developer or web "agency" to build is no less "garbage" than what engineers would call the average vibe-coded web app.

Claude in particular is today really surprisingly good at taking examples and a layperson's description of a website and building something that looks good and is functional.

For obvious reasons, I think many developers/engineers don't want to accept this. They'd prefer to believe that there's something special about their craft that means something produced by AI isn't good enough. But the honest will acknowledge that spaghetti code and crap pre-dated AI.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by slyzmud »

ElProlactin wrote: post #528
csa wrote: post #514

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> 1. Figma (in progress) Hmmm… maybe. I think not. It really depends on your other claims below, with which I mostly disagree. 2. Most entry level jobs for current graduates in white collar fields. (See hiring rates for these positions) Maybe a small amount. Entry level white collar jobs have a low hiring rate for other reasons, imho. 3. Thousands of layoffs (mostly attributed to AI use, while not 100%, the Anthropic…

I personally know several digital marketing people who were "tech savvy" but had no programming experience who have launched websites that would have cost them thousands of dollars to build. So much of what you'd previously pay a "real" freelance developer or web "agency" to build is no less "garbage" than what engineers would call the average vibe-coded web app. Claude in particular is today really surprisingly good…

> They'd prefer to believe that there's something special about their craft that means something produced by AI isn't good enough.

I know I can code and get better results than most people can with an LLM but I've came to realize that it doesn't matter and people just want to see results (even if they are kind of wrong).

In other words, with the website example, I've realized that even if the agency can do something 10x better, most people will choose to "buy" the AI website just because it's free or super cheap, and that makes me sad

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