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

Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. 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 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 (00:27) - Neural networks (05:31) - Biology (11:02) - Aliens (21:13) - Universe (33:04) - Transformers (41:20) - Language models (51:31) - Bots (57:51) - Google's LaMDA (1:05:14) - Software 2.0 (1:16:14) - Human annotation (1:18:11) - Camera vision (1:23:16) - Tesla's Data Engine (1:27:26) - Tesla Vision (1:33:56) - Elon Musk (1:39:03) - Autonomous driving (1:43:58) - Leaving Tesla (1:49:25) - Tesla's Optimus (1:58:31) - ImageNet (2:01:10) - Data (2:11:01) - Day in the life (2:24:17) - Best IDE (2:31:23) - arXiv (2:35:52) - Advice for beginners (2:45:10) - Artificial general intelligence (2:58:30) - Movies (3:04:23) - Future of human civilization (3:08:43) - Book recommendations (3:14:51) - Advice for young people (3:16:42) - Future of machine learning (3:23:30) - Meaning of life