Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

Today I'm speaking with Andrej Karpathy. Andrej, why do you say that this will be   the decade of agents and not the year of agents? First of all, thank you for having me here. I'm

excited to be here. The quote you've just  mentioned, "It's the decade of agents,"   is actually a reaction to a pre-existing quote. I'm not actually sure who said this but they were

alluding to this being the year of agents with  respect to LLMs and how they were going to evolve.

I was triggered by that because there's some  over-prediction going on in the industry.

In my mind, this is more accurately  described as the decade of agents.  We have some very early agents that  are extremely impressive and that I