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

Are you sure about your perspective?

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

>>george+y
ImageNet was very influential, but this just shows he was eighth author on a twelve author paper from almost a decade ago. Is there better evidence of sustained contributions to the field?

>>iaseia+X2
He’s first author on a ton of those papers. That’s a tenure worthy CV almost anywhere. Gimme a break.

>>sjwhev+Zk
OP shared a link to just the Imagenet paper.

Agree he had a decent overall track record at Stanford, but that’s not how tenure works — it might have got his foot in the door as an assistant professor somewhere. He chose a much more lucrative path.