Karpathy: 99% of people paying attention to AI got onboarded in under a year
MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-10-05
Karpathy shares his mental model of the current AI boom: 99%+ of people now paying attention learned anything AI-related in under a year — deeply confusing for "AI dinosaurs" who were in the field before 2026 or even pre-2012. A 2016-era researcher jokingly replies feeling "insulted."
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