Karpathy: ~75% of people have barely touched LLMs as the capability gap widens
AryHHAry · x · 2026-10-12
Karpathy revisited his April tweet arguing the gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is now a "sharp funnel": roughly 6B people (75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs, while another 1-2B are casual free-tier ChatGPT users. Most people who must form opinions on AI never see the steep part of the curve.
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