Thoughts on AI
Andrej Karpathy, during his podcast interview with Dwarkesh Patel. October 17, 2025. Hype. In the midst of all the hype around how AI is going to take all our jobs and Elon Musk telling us to give up on the idea of humans producing code in 2027, it's refreshing to hear saner voices making more nuanced statements and predictions about AI and our future. Andrej (pronounced Andre) Karpathy is one such voice. I will talk more about him a bit later in this post. While AI has produced some incredible results, there have also been plenty of failed predictions. Geoffrey Hinton (considered the godfather of AI) predicted in 2016 that AI will completely replace radiologists by 2021. Here we are in 2026 and radiologists are flourishing like never before! We live in a world that is undergoing disruption by AI just as it was once turned topsy-turvy by the inventions of printing, electricity, personal computers, the internet, smartphones, and CRISPR. Each time hype-mongers to...