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Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)
Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986
[2] ) is a Slovak-Canadian
computer scientist who served as the director of
artificial intelligence and
Autopilot Vision at
Tesla . He co-founded and formerly worked at
OpenAI ,
[3]
[4]
[5] where he specialized in
deep learning and
computer vision .
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Education and early life
Karpathy was born in
Bratislava ,
Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
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[12] and moved with his family to
Toronto when he was 15.
[13] He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degrees at
University of Toronto in 2009
[14] and his master's degree at
University of British Columbia in 2011,
[14] where he worked on physically-simulated figures (for example, a simulated runner or a simulated person in a crowd).
Karpathy received a PhD from
Stanford University in 2016 under the supervision of
Fei-Fei Li , focusing on the intersection of
natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task.
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Career and research
He authored and was the primary instructor of the first deep learning course at Stanford, CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition .
[17] It became one of the largest classes at Stanford, growing from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 2017.
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Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group
OpenAI ,
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[20] where he was a research scientist from 2015 to 2017.
[18] In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence and reported to
Elon Musk .
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[22] He was named one of
MIT Technology Review 's
Innovators Under 35 for 2020.
[23] After taking a several months-long sabbatical from Tesla, he announced he was leaving the company in July 2022.
[24] As of February 2023, he makes YouTube videos on how to create
artificial neural networks .
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It was reported on February 9 2023 that Karpathy had announced he was returning to OpenAI.
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A year later on February 13 2024, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Karpathy had left OpenAI.
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References
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Andrej Karpathy publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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"Self-reported on twitter" .
Archived from the original on 23 August 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2019 .
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"Tesla's Autopilot chief steps down after two years" . 26 April 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018 .
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"A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up" . 7 November 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018 .
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"A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit" . 19 April 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018 .
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"The Guy Who Taught AI to 'Remember' Is Launching a Startup" . 28 July 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018 .
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"Elon Musk has poached a top mind in AI research—from himself" . 21 June 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018 .
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Andrej Karpathy on
Medium
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"The Slovak, who leads the development of AI at Tesla, is leaving. It was an honor, says Musk – Živé.sk" . Retrieved 19 July 2022 .
^ Živé.sk (25 June 2020).
"Šéf AI v Tesle: Rodák zo Slovenska je medzi TOP 35 mladými novátormi" . Živé.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 19 July 2022 .
^ today, newsy (28 March 2022).
"The Slovak, who leads AI in Tesla, left the company for several months. He jokes with Musk about TikTok" . Newsy Today . Retrieved 19 July 2022 . [
permanent dead link ]
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"Slovák Andrej Karpathy z Tesly patrí podľa MIT medzi 35 top inovátorov" . TeslaMagazin.sk (in Slovak). 23 June 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2022 .
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"Next Generation Machine Learning - Training Deep Learning Models in a Browser: Andrej Karpathy Interview | DataScienceWeekly.org" . DataScienceWeekly.org . Retrieved 12 November 2018 .
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"Andrej Karpathy Academic Website" . cs.stanford.edu . Retrieved 12 November 2018 .
^ Karpathy, Andrej (2016).
Connecting Images and Natural Language . stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
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"Does 'robo-journalism' pose a threat to reporters?" . 23 March 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018 .
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"Stanford University CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition" . cs231n.stanford.edu . Retrieved 8 September 2022 .
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"Andrej Karpathy" . karpathy.ai . Retrieved 8 September 2022 .
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"Introducing OpenAI" . OpenAI . 12 December 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2022 .
^ Fan, Shelly (20 December 2015).
"Inside OpenAI: Will Transparency Protect Us From Artificial Intelligence Run Amok?" . Singularity Hub . Retrieved 8 September 2022 .
^ Etherington, Darrell (21 June 2017).
"Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 10 November 2023 .
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"Tesla hired a top AI expert to lead a critical aspect of Autopilot -- here's what we know" . 22 June 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018 .
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"Andrej Karpathy (Innovators Under 35 2020)" . MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 8 September 2022 .
^ Kolodny, Lora (13 July 2022).
"Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he's leaving the company" . CNBC . Retrieved 14 July 2022 .
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"Andrej Karpathy - YouTube" . youtube.com . Retrieved 4 February 2023 .
^ @karpathy (9 February 2023).
"Some personal news: I am joining OpenAI (again :)). Like many others both in/out of AI, I am very inspired by the impact of their work and I have personally benefited greatly from it. The future potential is especially exciting; it is a great pleasure to jump back in and build!🪄" (
Tweet ) – via
Twitter .
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"OpenAI Researcher Andrew Karpathy Departs" . 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024 .
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