Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday • Hacker News Board

jph00 wrote: post #5

islewis wrote: post #4

Given Karpathy's draw towards teaching/educational content, I've wondered where he falls on the spectrum between Sam Altman's interpretation of "Open" in OpenAI, and someone on the opposite end (like Musk). I'd imagine if one was fully onboard with the AI/LLM commercialization train, there's no better spot than OpenAI right now.

I think he's actually more towards the end of "actually open", which is not a place either Elon nor Sam are at. Grok and OpenAI don't openly publish or freely release much of their work. Andrej however has released a lot of his work for free ever since he was a PhD student.

That’s why I suspect he’ll be joining Meta next.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by throwtroawat » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 2:35 AM UTC

Karpathy is a great instructor, but has he has any meaningful impact in industry?

It seems from the outside like he locked Tesla into a losing, NN-only direction for autonomous driving.

(I don’t know what he did at openai.)

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Post by skepticATX » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 2:35 AM UTC

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.

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Post by dontreact » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 2:37 AM UTC

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 can focus 100% on educational stuff!

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Post by thejazzman » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 2:37 AM UTC

throwtroawat wrote: post #17

Karpathy is a great instructor, but has he has any meaningful impact in industry? It seems from the outside like he locked Tesla into a losing, NN-only direction for autonomous driving. (I don’t know what he did at openai.)

Tesla is only now launching their NN-only FSD model?..