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Andrej Karpathy believes that during sleep, experience is distilled into the brain's weights.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“I think there's some process of distillation into weights of my brain.”
“And this happens during sleep and all this kind of stuff.”Play from 22:34Report a misattribution
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