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Humans figure things out at test time after birth, and rapidly changing, unpredictable environments may favor intelligence that can adapt when successful strategies cannot be foreseen.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“be baked in the sense and so humans have to figure it out the test time when they get born and so maybe there was um you actually want these kinds of uh environments that actually change really rapidly or something like that where you can't foresee um what will work well and so you actually put all that intelligent you create intelligence to figure it out at this time”1:38:38Report a misattribution
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