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The speaker compares smaller AI models to school-age children and says current models can answer PhD-level quizzes while still feeling cognitively like elementary-school students.

Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025

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“somehow remarkably again some of these analogies work and they shouldn't but somehow remarkably they do a lot of the smaller models or the dumber model like the smaller models somehow remarkably resemble like a kindergarten student or then like a elementary school student or high school student etc and somehow we still haven't like graduated enough where this stuff can take over like it's still mostly like my cloth code or codex they still kind of feel like this elementary grade student i know that they can take phd quizzes”
“this but they still cognitively feel like a kindergartner in elementary school”
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