#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He’s the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00)– Introduction
(05:41)– Neural networks
(10:45)– Biology
(16:15)– Aliens
(26:27)– Universe
(38:18)– Transformers
(46:34)– Language models
(56:45)– Bots
(1:03:05)– Google’s LaMDA
(1:10:28)– Software 2.0
(1:21:28)– Human annotation
(1:23:25)– Camera vision
(1:28:30)– Tesla’s Data Engine
(1:32:39)– Tesla Vision
(1:39:09)– Elon Musk
(1:44:17)– Autonomous driving
(1:49:11)– Leaving Tesla
(1:54:39)– Tesla’s Optimus
(2:03:45)– ImageNet
(2:06:23)– Data
(2:16:15)– Day in the life
(2:29:31)– Best IDE
(2:36:37)– arXiv
(2:41:06)– Advice for beginners
(2:50:24)– Artificial general intelligence
(3:03:44)– Movies
(3:09:37)– Future of human civilization
(3:13:56)– Book recommendations
(3:20:05)– Advice for young people
(3:21:56)– Future of machine learning
(3:28:44)– Meaning of life