Tesla’s former AI Director, Andrej Karpathy, was the most recent guest on Lex Fridman’s podcast. Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and Stanford educator, spoke with Fridman on a wide range of topics, including AI, leaving Tesla, and even the meaning of life. For individuals who are considering learning more about machine learning, Karpathy has this recommendation to share.
“Beginners are sometimes focused on what to do, and I believe the main target ought to be more on how much you do. So, I’m a believer on a high level on this 10,000 hours form of concept where you only form of must pick the things where you possibly can spend time, and also you care about, and also you’re concerned about. You literally must put in 10,000 hours of labor.”
Karpathy emphasized that it’s the work that’s a very powerful part.
“I feel like there’s some sense of determinism about being an authority a few thing should you spend 10,000 hours. You may literally pick an arbitrary thing, and I believe should you spend 10,000 hours of deliberate effort and work, you really turn into an authority at it.”
Karpathy’s work at Tesla was a vital a part of its technology development. After taking a sabbatical, he decided to part ways with the corporate, and Fridman asked him to share why he selected to go away.
When Karpathy announced he was leaving, he said it was a difficult decision and that he didn’t have any concrete plans. He desired to spend more time revisiting his long-term passions across the technical work in AI, open source, and education.
“I believe over time during those five years; I’ve form of gotten myself into a bit of little bit of a managerial position. Most of my days were, you understand, meetings and growing the organization and making decisions about type of high-level strategic decisions concerning the team and what it ought to be working on and so forth.”
“And it’s form of like a company executive role, and I can do it. I believe I’m okay at it, nevertheless it’s not like fundamentally what I enjoy, and so I believe after I joined, there was no computer vision team because Tesla was just going from the transition of using Mobileye, a third-party vendor, for all of its computer vision to having to construct its computer vision system. So after I showed up, there have been two people training deep neural networks.”
The last query Karpathy answered was concerning the meaning of life. Fridman recapped that the 2 were discussing the best way to get the creator of the universe to note us. “We’ve talked concerning the universe having a conversation with us humans or with the systems we create, try to reply. For the creator of the universe to note us, we’re attempting to create systems which can be loud enough to reply back.”
Karpathy identified that this will likely be the meaning of life for some people and shared his own thoughts. “Anyone can select their very own meaning of life because we’re conscious entities and it’s beautiful.”
“I do think like a deeper meaning of life if someone is interested, are along the lines of like, ‘what the hell is all this?’”
You may watch Karpathy’s full interview with Lex Fridman below.
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