No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla note

Andrej Karpathy on Self-Driving Cars, AI, and the Future of Education

Self-Driving Cars: AGI is Here, Globalization is Next

• We’ve reached a point where self-driving cars are functional and commercially available, similar to achieving AGI.
• The next challenge is widespread adoption and integration, analogous to AGI’s globalization phase.
• Tesla’s strength lies in its software and vast real-world data collection, while Waymo faces hardware limitations.
• Tesla’s approach to using expensive sensors at training time and distilling that into vision-only models for deployment is a clever strategy.
• The future of self-driving likely involves end-to-end deep learning systems, potentially just a neural net processing video input and generating driving commands.

Humanoid Robots: Tesla is a Robotics Company

• Tesla’s expertise in building cars at scale directly translates to building humanoid robots.
• Initial applications for humanoid robots will likely be in industrial settings like material handling, followed by B2B and eventually B2C use cases.
• Humanoid form factor is advantageous due to its familiarity, ease of teleoperation for data collection, and potential for transfer learning across tasks.
• Advancements in actuation, manipulation, and data collection…