Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Transcript 370 17 66 Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away "The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult” Dwarkesh Patel Oct 17, 2025 370 17 66 Share Transcript The Andrej Karpathy episode. Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why model collapse prevents LLMs from learning the way humans do, why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as the future of educati

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