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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Attention Is All You Need

The transformer is a magnificent neural network architecture, because it is a general purpose differentiable computer. It's simultaneously expressive in the forward pass, optimizable via back propagation gradient descent, and efficient high parallelism compute graph. You want to have a general purpose computer that you can train on arbitrary problems like next word prediction or detecting if there's a cat in an image. If it was too grand, it would over promise and then under deliver potentially. That should be a t-shirt.

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