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Andrej Karpathy on AI

4 quotes from Andrej Karpathy on the wall, 2024 to 2025, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include understandingai.org, Andrej Karpathy (X), thezvi.substack.com.

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  1. 2025

  2. You're sucking supervision through a straw

    News#science#hype

    Andrej Karpathy, on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast in 2025, describing the weakness of reinforcement learning for training AI models.

    understandingai.orgAI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong

  3. We're in an intelligence explosion already and have been for decades

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    Andrej Karpathy, on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast in 2025, arguing that AI progress is a continuation of decades of computing advances rather than a sudden new phenomenon.

    understandingai.orgAI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong

  4. 2024

  5. Trained on a joke of a budget

    News#money#hype

    Andrej Karpathy, on X (December 26, 2024), commenting on DeepSeek's low-cost training of a frontier-grade open weights LLM.

    Andrej Karpathy (X)Andrej Karpathy on X

  6. What is the name for the paranoid feeling that what you just read was LLM generated

    News#culture#hype

    Andrej Karpathy asked this question on Twitter, quoted in Zvi Mowshowitz's AI #87 newsletter, October 2024.

    thezvi.substack.comAI #87: Staying in Character