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Andrej Karpathy says transformers and their modern modifications did not exist in 2015.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“I mean, Transformer was not around.”
“You know, all the all these sort of like more modern tweaks on the transformer we're not around.”Play from 24:24Report a misattribution
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