Karpathy says that, at the time of the conversation, asking ChatGPT to teach AI would produce low-quality material, and AI could not yet create Nanachat, which he considers a useful intermediate learning resource.

“between you say oh teach me ai there's no way it's like i mean it's going to give you some slop right like when i ai is never going to write nanachat right now but nanachat is a really useful i think intermediate point so i still i'm collaborating with ai to create all this material so ai is still fundamentally very helpful um earlier on i built a cs231n at stanford which was one of the earlier actually sorry i think it was the first deep learning class at stanford which became very popular um um”