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The speaker characterizes pre-training as a technologically practical but inferior analogue of evolution.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“So that's why I kind of call pre-training this kind of like crappy evolution.”Play from 12:01Report a misattribution
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