Andrej Karpathy

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Andrej Karpathy
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Karpathy at Stanford in 2016
Born
Andrej Karpathy

(1986-10-23) 23 October 1986 (age 38)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Alma mater
Awards Innovators Under 35 (2020)
Scientific career
Fields Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Artificial intelligence [1]
Institutions
Thesis Connecting Images and Natural Language  (2016)
Doctoral advisor Fei-Fei Li
Website karpathy.ai OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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. [6] [7] [1] [8]

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Education and early life

Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) [9] [10] [11] [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) with his adviser Michiel van de Panne.

Karpathy received a PhD from Stanford University in 2015 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. [15] [16]

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. [18]

Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, [19] [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. [21] [7] [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. [25]

It was reported on February 9, 2023, that Karpathy had announced he was returning to OpenAI. [26]

A year later on February 13, 2024, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Karpathy had left OpenAI. [27]

On July 16, 2024 Karpathy announced on his X account, that he started a new AI+Education company called Eureka Labs. [28] According to Eureka Labs, their first product will be the AI course, LLM101n. [29]

References

  1. 1 2 Andrej Karpathy publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Self-reported on twitter". Archived from the original on 23 August 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "Tesla's Autopilot chief steps down after two years". 26 April 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Metz, Cade (7 November 2017). "A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Metz, Cade (19 April 2017). "A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Guy Who Taught AI to 'Remember' Is Launching a Startup". 28 July 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Elon Musk has poached a top mind in AI research—from himself". 21 June 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  8. ↑ Andrej Karpathy on Medium
  9. ↑ "The Slovak, who leads the development of AI at Tesla, is leaving. It was an honor, says Musk – Živé.sk". 14 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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 ]
  12. ↑ "Slovák Andrej Karpathy z Tesly patrí podľa MIT medzi 35 top inovátorov". TeslaMagazin.sk (in Slovak). 23 June 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  13. ↑ "Next Generation Machine Learning - Training Deep Learning Models in a Browser: Andrej Karpathy Interview | DataScienceWeekly.org". DataScienceWeekly.org. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  14. 1 2 "Andrej Karpathy Academic Website". cs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  15. ↑ Karpathy, Andrej (2016). Connecting Images and Natural Language. stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
  16. ↑ "Does 'robo-journalism' pose a threat to reporters?". 23 March 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  17. ↑ "Stanford University CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition". cs231n.stanford.edu. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  18. 1 2 "Andrej Karpathy". karpathy.ai. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  19. ↑ "Introducing OpenAI". OpenAI. 12 December 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  20. ↑ Fan, Shelly (20 December 2015). "Inside OpenAI: Will Transparency Protect Us From Artificial Intelligence Run Amok?". Singularity Hub. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  21. ↑ Etherington, Darrell (21 June 2017). "Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  22. ↑ "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.
  23. ↑ "Andrej Karpathy (Innovators Under 35 2020)". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  24. ↑ Kolodny, Lora (13 July 2022). "Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he's leaving the company". CNBC. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  25. ↑ "Andrej Karpathy - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  26. ↑ @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.
  27. ↑ "OpenAI Researcher Andrew Karpathy Departs". 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  28. ↑ @karpathy (16 July 2024). "Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs🪄" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  29. ↑ "Eureka Labs". eurekalabs.ai. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  1. Official Website of Eureka Labs
  2. Official GitHub Account of Eureka Labs
  3. Official Discord Account of Eureka Labs
  4. Andrej Karpathy at Twitter
  5. Andrej Karpathy at GitHub
  6. Andrej Karpathy at Youtube
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