Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333

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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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

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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:58 – Neural networks
6:01 – Biology
11:32 – Aliens
21:43 – Universe
33:34 – Transformers
41:50 – Language models
52:01 – Bots
58:21 – Google’s LaMDA
1:05:44 – Software 2.0
1:16:44 – Human annotation
1:18:41 – Camera vision
1:23:46 – Tesla’s Data Engine
1:27:56 – Tesla Vision
1:34:26 – Elon Musk
1:39:33 – Autonomous driving
1:44:28 – Leaving Tesla
1:49:55 – Tesla’s Optimus
1:59:01 – ImageNet
2:01:40 – Data
2:11:31 – Day in the life
2:24:47 – Best IDE
2:31:53 – arXiv
2:36:23 – Advice for beginners
2:45:40 – Artificial general intelligence
2:59:00 – Movies
3:04:53 – Future of human civilization
3:09:13 – Book recommendations
3:15:21 – Advice for young people
3:17:12 – Future of machine learning
3:24:00 – Meaning of life

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