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The speaker says pre-training both imparts knowledge to a model and develops its intelligence, which he regards as somewhat separate effects.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“It's doing two things, actually, that are kind of like unrelated.”
“Number one, it's picking up all this knowledge,”
“as I call it.”
“Number two, it's actually becoming intelligent.”12:52Report a misattribution
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