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The speaker speculates that cognitive achievement could become a sport, potentially involving competitions that treat knowledge like an Olympic discipline.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“But maybe it's going to even become a sport.”
“But right now you have powerlifters who go extreme on this direction.”
“So what is powerlifting in a cognitive era?”
“Maybe it's people who are really trying to make Olympics out of knowing stuff.”Play from 2:12:35Report a misattribution
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