[onion2k]

https://karpathy.ai/

PHD in neural networks under Fei-Fei Li, founder of OpenAI, director of AI at Tesla, etc. He knows what he's talking about.

[UncleMeat]

I think this misses it a bit.

Andrej got famous because of his educational content. He's a smart dude but his research wasn't incredibly unique amongst his cohort at Stanford. He created publicly available educational content around ML that was high quality and got hugely popular. This is what made him a huge name in ML, which he then successfully leveraged into positions of substantial authority in his post-grad career.

He is a very effective communicator and has a lot of people listening to him. And while he is definitely more knowledgeable than most people, I don't think that he is uniquely capable of seeing the future of these technologies.

[Der_Einzige]

At one point he did. Cognitive atrophy has led him to decline just like everyone else.

[alansaber]

Where do we draw the line? Was einstein in his later years a pop physicist?

[hu3]

you can't really compare Karpathy with Einstein.

One of them is barely known outside some bubbles and will be forgotten in history, the other is immortal.

Imagine what Einstein could do with today's computing power.

[William_BB]

Oh, like the LLM OS?

[ahoka]

Ex cathedra.