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The speaker believes current AI models cannot create culture because they remain cognitively immature, despite strong memory and convincing output, and lack a full range of cognitive abilities.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“student so i don't think they can create culture because they're still kids um you know like they're savant kids um they have absurd they have perfect memory of all this stuff etc and they can uh convincingly create all kinds of slop that looks really good but i still think they don't really know what they're doing and they don't really have the cognition across all these little check boxes that we still have to collect”1:42:34Report a misattribution
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