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The speaker says a person cannot memorize and recite a single sequence of random numbers after reading it once.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“thing it'll memorize it there's no way a person can read a single sequence of random numbers and recite it to you um and that's a feature not a bug almost because it forces you to like only learn those generalizable components whereas llms are distracted by all the memory that they have of the pre-training documents”Play from 56:00Report a misattribution
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