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#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
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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:
Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(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
- Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings
- BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off
- Fundrise: https://fundrise.com/lex
- Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil
EPISODE LINKS:
Andrej's Twitter: http://twitter.com/karpathy
Andrej's YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/AndrejKarpathy
Andrej's Website: http://karpathy.ai
Andrej's Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l8WuQJgAAAAJ
Books mentioned:
The Vital Question: https://amzn.to/3q0vN6q
Life Ascending: https://amzn.to/3wKIsOE
The Selfish Gene: https://amzn.to/3TCo63s
Contact: https://amzn.to/3W3y5Au
The Cell: https://amzn.to/3W5f6pa
PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8
RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman
YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips
SUPPORT & CONNECT:
- Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast
- Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman
- Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman
OUTLINE:
Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(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