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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 360 days ago
No, they are totally unrelated. Web 3.0 is blockchain-backed web applications (rather than proprietary server-backed web applications, which is Web 2.0) and Software 3.0 is LLM-powered agents.
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They are related in that they are pure marketing buzzwords to build enormous hype around a product, if not a dream.
That does not describe Karpathy’s use of Software 3.0. He is referring to LLM agents with that term, which is agnostic to LLM model, whether third-party-hosted or self-hosted.
What was Software 2.0?
It's using NNs or ML models which are given datasets and learn using those datasets. https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35

If you read the talk you can find out this and more :)

Early application specific ML models, Software 1.0 is normal programs.
And what was Software 1.0?
Trained Neural Networks.