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Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

Dwarkesh Patel

Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

Dwarkesh Patel interviews Andrej Karpathy on why reinforcement learning is flawed, why AGI may blend into steady GDP growth, why self-driving took so long, and the future of education. The conversation runs about two and a half hours.

Mostly cited as a source for Karpathy's views on agents, AGI timelines and LLMs, rather than recommended outright.

5 Hacker News mentions · 2025–2026

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