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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.”Play from 1:35:54Report a misattribution
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