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The speaker says that repeated requests for a model to think about the same book chapter can produce nearly identical outputs, even when each output looks reasonable on its own.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“I guess what I'm saying is, say we have a chapter of a book and I ask an alum to think about it.”
“It will give you something that looks very reasonable.”
“But if I ask it 10 times, you'll notice that all of them are the same.”Play from 52:31Report a misattribution
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