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The speaker is uncertain that LLMs and VLMs provide as much generalization for free as claimed, and says there are many gaps in understanding what they provide.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“yeah basically i'm not 100 sure if i fully agree with that i don't know that we're how much we're getting for free and i still think there's like a lot of”
“a lot of gaps in understanding in what we are getting um i'm we're definitely getting more generalizable intelligence in a single entity uh whereas self-driving is a very special purpose task that requires in some sense building a special purpose task is maybe even harder in a certain sense because it doesn't like fall out from a more general thing that you're doing at scale if that makes sense so um”Play from 1:48:09Report a misattribution
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