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Andrej Karpathy is joining OpenAI again
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoHe barely lasted 6 months as a gentleman of leisure.
- cweill 4y agoDo you think he was on garden leave? Some kind of non-compete?
- htrp 4y ago100% ... i would be shocked if that wasn't written into his contract.
- motoxpro 4y agoClassic. "100%" certainty but then the guy himself responds and says it's not the case.
- karpathy 4y agothere were no non-competes, garden leaves or etc., i just took some time for myself and then ~late last year started to feel an itch again.
- jackallis 4y agoAre you going to continue your youtube experience?
- captn3m0 4y agoHe said yes on twitter: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1623492347739910145 https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1623492347739910145
- testmasterflex 4y ago[flagged]
- honksillet 4y ago[flagged]
- redox99 4y agoReally happy for you. I thoroughly enjoyed your YouTube NN series, and your Lex interview.
- beecafe 4y agoFoss?
- nunez 4y agoWow; appreciate the transparency dude and thanks for helping build autopilot and fsd.
- mycpuorg 4y ago[flagged]
- pfdietz 4y agoI appreciate your videos. Thanks!
- tasuki 4y agoSome people enjoy not working some of the time. If that's hard for you to believe, I'd love to know what job you have! :)
- ian0 4y agoFor those who dont know, Andrej has a brilliant series of videos on youtube where he explores the basics of neural nets right up to transformer architecture through code. Starts here [0] and most recent is building GPT from scratch in code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0
- ultrasounder 4y agoAbsolute Gold!. And he really gets down to the Bits and Atoms which is why its very useful
- gitfan86 4y agoGood for him. He seems to be a very thoughtful person that would let the world know if things got out of control.
- barelyauser 4y agoAs sad as Carmack working for Facebook. One would expect that bright people would know better, specially after the Manhattan project.
- icapybara 4y agoIn what ways do you view working for OpenAI as a bad thing?
- jjoonathan 4y agoI'm not personally too chuffed about corporate hypocrisy, but the more you believe in OpenAI's name and stated mission the more likely you are to be upset with them (and, by extension, this news).
- barelyauser 4y agoNo good will come from the business model offered by "Open"AI. It is not like the personal computer revolution that created tremendous wealth and opportunity. These companies are not developing "tools" like the personal PC. The models are closed, trained on closed data and cost a fortune to train. All they will ever offer is a paid prompt.
- TheDudeMan 4y agoWho do you work for?
- dmix 4y ago> All they will ever offer is a paid prompt. Last time I checked Carmack never gave his games away for free.
- barelyauser 4y agoI was referring to ChatGPT. It is a paid prompt.
- nmfisher 4y agoPresumably the lure of all that hardware was too much to resist!
- mad_vill 4y agomakes sense ... karpathy is a pragmatic thinker. openai seems like a pragmatic company. Can't wait to see want gets built.
- vlod 4y agoFYI He was on the Lex podcast [0] ~3.5hrs [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0
- hbarka 4y agoWith the popularity of ChatGPT in the news, I've seen on many occasions now where the headline would refer to OpenAI as having been founded or co-founded by Elon Musk. Granted it makes a good lead story inserting Musk into it but how true is this claim? I hope karpathy can put this question to rest: can Elon Musk claim to be a co-founder of OpenAI in the true sense of being part of the founding team? (Recall the Tesla founders story.) According to the blog entry at https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/ https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/, the founding members are: "OpenAI’s research director is Ilya Sutskever, one of the world experts in machine learning. Our CTO is Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe. The group’s other founding members are world-class research engineers and scientists: Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba." Elon Musk is mentioned as a donor. And so is AWS, Infosys, and Reid Hoffman. "Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion" Surely, donors cannot claim to be founders of OpenAI, the same as how VCs cannot claim to be the founders of startups they fund. If this were the case, then Jeff Bezos, owner of AWS then, could have the same claim as a co-founder of OpenAI.
- codeulike 4y agoThe bit you quoted from https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/ https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/ goes on to say "OpenAI’s co-chairs are Sam Altman and Elon Musk." Did you not read that far? Wired had a couple of articles in 2015/2016 about the founding of OpenAI https://www.wired.com/2016/04/openai-elon-musk-sam-altman-plan-to-set-artificial-intelligence-free/ https://www.wired.com/2016/04/openai-elon-musk-sam-altman-pl... https://www.wired.com/2015/12/elon-musk-snags-top-google-researcher-for-new-ai-non-profit/ https://www.wired.com/2015/12/elon-musk-snags-top-google-res...
- hbarka 4y agoSo? It's not unusual for large donors to become an honorary chair of a company. VCs get this privilege oftentimes. There is literally nothing in the OpenAI announcement that he's a founder. Websites like Wired and Buzzfeed ran with it because people would shrug if the story went that the founders are Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba. Who? No it can't be them, it's Elon Elon!#