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Karpathy argues that a newborn zebra's ability to run and follow its mother is innate rather than learned through reinforcement learning.

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

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“um that's not reinforcement learning that's something that's baked in and evolution obviously has some way of encoding the weights of our neural nets in attcg's and i have no idea how that works but it apparently works so i kind of feel like brains just came from a very different process and i i'm very hesitant to take inspiration from it because we're not actually running that process so in my post i kind of said”
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