Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He's the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off Fundrise: https://fundrise.com/lex Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil EPISODE LINKS: Andrej's Twitter: / karpathy Andrej's YouTube: / andrejkarpathy Andrej's Website: http://karpathy.ai Andrej's Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?u... Books mentioned: The Vital Question: https://amzn.to/3q0vN6q Life Ascending: https://amzn.to/3wKIsOE The Selfish Gene: https://amzn.to/3TCo63s Contact: https://amzn.to/3W3y5Au The Cell: https://amzn.to/3W5f6pa PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: • Lex Fridman Podcast Clips playlist: • Lex Fridman Podcast Clips OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:58 - Neural networks 6:01 - Biology 11:32 - Aliens 21:43 - Universe 33:34 - Transformers 41:50 - Language models 52:01 - Bots 58:21 - Google's LaMDA 1:05:44 - Software 2.0 1:16:44 - Human annotation 1:18:41 - Camera vision 1:23:46 - Tesla's Data Engine 1:27:56 - Tesla Vision 1:34:26 - Elon Musk 1:39:33 - Autonomous driving 1:44:28 - Leaving Tesla 1:49:55 - Tesla's Optimus 1:59:01 - ImageNet 2:01:40 - Data 2:11:31 - Day in the life 2:24:47 - Best IDE 2:31:53 - arXiv 2:36:23 - Advice for beginners 2:45:40 - Artificial general intelligence 2:59:00 - Movies 3:04:53 - Future of human civilization 3:09:13 - Book recommendations 3:15:21 - Advice for young people 3:17:12 - Future of machine learning 3:24:00 - Meaning of life SOCIAL: Twitter: / lexfridman LinkedIn: / lexfridman Facebook: / lexfridman Instagram: / lexfridman Medium: / lexfridman Reddit: / lexfridman Support on Patreon: / lexfridman

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