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The speaker considers self-play extremely powerful and says competition in evolution helps drive intelligence.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“The second one looks a lot more like the powerful idea of self-play in my mind is extremely powerful.”
“So evolution actually has a lot of competition basically driving intelligence and”1:40:55Report a misattribution
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