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:
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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

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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

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