Karpathy: only ~5,000 people have seen what AI can really do
webthing01 · reddit · 2026-10-13
In a conversation with Box CEO Aaron Levie, Andrej Karpathy claimed only about 5,000 people have truly seen what AI is capable of — a wide capability gap between those using frontier models intensively with the right techniques and the general public. The discussion highlights how perception of AI lags far behind its actual ceiling, and how depth of use is becoming a major differentiator.
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