Karpathy was skeptical that game-playing would lead to AGI and favored agents capable of real-world interaction and work such as accounting.

“And what I was trying to do at OpenAI actually is like I was always a little bit suspicious of games as being like this thing that would actually lead to AGI because in my mind you want something like an accountant or like something that's actually interacting with the real world.”

“And I just didn't see how games kind of like add up to it.”