4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker says evolution cannot encode learning algorithms into animals in advance, and that many animals are largely pre-programmed.

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

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“So evolution can't bake your algorithms into your weights. A lot of a lot of animals are basically pre-baked.”
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