4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
opinion claim

The speaker is unsure whether animals and intelligence have experienced a bottleneck comparable to the two-billion-year bacterial and archaeal bottleneck.

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

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“I don't know that we've seen exactly that kind of an equivalent with animals and intelligence.”
1:35:54Report a misattribution
0.45how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
0.70importance to the conversation
0.95confidence the claim was read correctly