The Andrej Karpathy episode. During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as the future of education. It was a pleasure chatting with him.

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* Transcript: https://dwarkesh.substack.com/p/andrej-karpathy
* Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andrej-karpathy-agi-is-still-a-decade-away/id1516093381?i=1000732326311
* Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3iIYVmmhXwh3fOumypWVpC?si=33d37708b2b44e2f

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00:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away
00:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits
00:40:53 – RL is terrible
00:50:26 – How do humans learn?
01:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth
01:18:24 – ASI
01:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture
01:43:43 - Why self driving took so long
01:57:08 - Future of education