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The speaker thinks fundraising and incentive structures explain much of the nonsensical claims they encounter about AI.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“And I think there's a lot of reasons for why that exists.”
“And I think a lot of it is, I think, honestly, just stuff fundraising.”
“It's just incentive structures.”
“A lot of it may be fundraising.”Play from 1:54:53Report a misattribution
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