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How Andrej Karpathy shaped the future of AI. Try Brilliant’s new tutor for free: brilliant.org/Newsthink and get 20% off your annual premium subscription
Chapters
00:00 Elon Musk’s Secret Recruitment
0:42 Leaving Slovakia for Canada
1:54 Geoffrey Hinton and the AI Revolution
2:27 Teaching Computers to See
3:28 The Obama Photo That Stumped AI
4:55 Karpathy vs. AI
5:46 Building Tesla’s Autopilot
6:18 Fixing a Major Tesla Problem
7:00 Becoming an AI Teacher
7:21 Rise of Vibe Coding
7:36 The $100 Million Talent War
8:17 Learn Math With a Private Tutor
Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom
https://x.com/cindypom
Grab your Newsthink merch here: newsthink.creator-spring.com
Support Cindy on Patreon! patreon.com/Newsthink
Sources:
Woman riding a horse: Greg Dunham, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
People on a beach by Dirk, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cat resting on a couch: www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pictures of the baby elephant, baby Cyrus, Christ the Redeemer, Luffy the dog, video of Bangkok traffic at nighttime were photographed, filmed, and/or properties of Cindy Pom and Newsthink Ltd.
How Andrej Karpathy shaped the future of AI. Try Brilliant’s new tutor for free: brilliant.org/Newsthink and get 20% off your annual premium subscription
Chapters
00:00 Elon Musk’s Secret Recruitment
0:42 Leaving Slovakia for Canada
1:54 Geoffrey Hinton and the AI Revolution
2:27 Teaching Computers to See
3:28 The Obama Photo That Stumped AI
4:55 Karpathy vs. AI
5:46 Building Tesla’s Autopilot
6:18 Fixing a Major Tesla Problem
7:00 Becoming an AI Teacher
7:21 Rise of Vibe Coding
7:36 The $100 Million Talent War
8:17 Learn Math With a Private Tutor
Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom
https://x.com/cindypom
Grab your Newsthink merch here: newsthink.creator-spring.com
Support Cindy on Patreon! patreon.com/Newsthink
Sources:
Woman riding a horse: Greg Dunham, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
People on a beach by Dirk, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cat resting on a couch: www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pictures of the baby elephant, baby Cyrus, Christ the Redeemer, Luffy the dog, video of Bangkok traffic at nighttime were photographed, filmed, and/or properties of Cindy Pom and Newsthink Ltd.
