@Zephyr_hg: Andrej Karpathy: "If I can't build it, I don't understand it." In a 2-hour interview, the researcher behind a lot of mo…
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Andrej Karpathy emphasizes that true AI understanding comes from building, not collecting prompts, in a 2-hour interview.
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Andrej Karpathy:
“If I can’t build it, I don’t understand it.” In a 2-hour interview, the researcher behind a lot of modern AI says what real understanding takes.
Real understanding comes from building something with AI, not from collecting prompts to memorize.
The people who build the setup understand it. The people who collect prompts stay stuck.
Watch the interview, then see the setup in the article below.
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