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>>mfigui+A3
Unpopular opinion… but IMO almost all of Karpathy’s fame an influence come from being an incredible educator and communicator.

Relative to his level of fame, his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI, I’m not so sure about.

I deeply appreciate his educational content and I’m glad that it has led to a way for him to gain influence and sustain a career. Hopefully he’s rich enough from that that he can focus 100% on educational stuff!

>>dontre+(OP)
Would have to agree. Looking at Karpathys research career it’s hard to pin point something and say he’s the inventor of so and so. There are plenty of other researchers for whol you can easily say he’s the inventor of so and so and they have much lesser fame than Karpathy, for example Kaiming He for ResNet, John Schulman for PPO etc.

I don’t see that as an issue though, just a natural consequence of his great work in teaching neural networks!