#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

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: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off - Fundrise: https://fundrise.com/lex - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil EPISODE LINKS: Andrej's Twitter: http://twitter.com/karpathy Andrej's YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/AndrejKarpathy Andrej's Website: http://karpathy.ai Andrej's Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l8WuQJgAAAAJ 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 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (05:41) - Neural networks (10:45) - Biology (16:15) - Aliens (26:27) - Universe (38:18) - Transformers (46:34) - Language models (56:45) - Bots (1:03:05) - Google's LaMDA (1:10:28) - Software 2.0 (1:21:28) - Human annotation (1:23:25) - Camera vision (1:28:30) - Tesla's Data Engine (1:32:39) - Tesla Vision (1:39:09) - Elon Musk (1:44:17) - Autonomous driving (1:49:11) - Leaving Tesla (1:54:39) - Tesla's Optimus (2:03:45) - ImageNet (2:06:23) - Data (2:16:15) - Day in the life (2:29:31) - Best IDE (2:36:37) - arXiv (2:41:06) - Advice for beginners (2:50:24) - Artificial general intelligence (3:03:44) - Movies (3:09:37) - Future of human civilization (3:13:56) - Book recommendations (3:20:05) - Advice for young people (3:21:56) - Future of machine learning (3:28:44) - Meaning of life