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I'm impressed by the amount of flak that Karpathy is getting here.

His great instructional videos on YT tell me that he is passionate for both AI and education, so I'm all for him trying to mix the two. More effort on education is always welcome in my book.

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Their first planned product is an online course for building a "Storyteller" LLM, explicitly stating that the course will take some time to build and that there is no timeline on when it will launch [1]. The company page states that their vision merely "feels tractable", and concedes that they might not be successful [2]. There is a lack of arguments regarding how they can bring any substantial advancements over current generative AI tech. At present this all looks rather underwhelming, with a substantial dose of wishful thinking.

[1] https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n [2] https://eurekalabs.ai/

> There is a lack of arguments regarding how they can bring any substantial advancements over current AI tech.

It doesn't sound like that's a goal though.

It would be necessary to fulfil the vision.

It would be, but its not top priority to finish by yesterday. This is a new direction, so I'd rather have it be good than quick

Frankly they are in a race with the AGI folks. If AGI is built first, you no longer need to educate humans, since most humans will be useless at that point.

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