Karpathy, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher, was developing a product he has described as an AI assistant and worked closely with the company’s research chief, Bob McGrew. While ChatGPT has been a hit with consumers, OpenAI wants to launch software that can automate complex computer-based tasks, like filling out expense reports and entering them in accounting software, The Information reported last week.
Karpathy rejoined OpenAI last year after spending five years at Tesla, where he oversaw development of its Autopilot semi-automated driving software. His departure from OpenAI comes almost exactly one year since he said on X that he was returning to the company.
Karpathy couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. “Andrej is departing to pursue personal projects. We are deeply grateful for his contributions and wish him the best,” OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood said in a statement. “His responsibilities have transitioned to a senior researcher who worked closely alongside Andrej.”
Karpathy is the first high-profile departure at OpenAI since several senior staff resigned in the wake of CEO Sam Altman’s ouster by the board of OpenAI’s nonprofit parent. The staffers returned to the company alongside Altman after the board reversed its decision. Despite the drama, OpenAI’s business growth continued.
Karpathy has been a public face of OpenAI through podcasts, and he posts frequently on X. He has described large language models, the conversational AI that powers ChatGPT, as a kind of operating system because of its ability to retrieve files, write code and run programs, and understand audio, images and human commands.
This is a disingenuous generalization.
gary_0's reply below is a good way to frame the deception: show the search engine one thing, show the user something else.
So yes, sharing the article is important in this case. If there was, say, a 300$ per year global subscription to a 100 of publications, I'm also sure 90% of hacker news would buy it.
No one is going to pay $300/yr to read news articles online.
But even people do that, by your logic it's just limiting the access to information to a specific group of those who are able and willing to pay $300/yr to read news.
It's important to remember that respect for the fundamentals of copyright is a prerequisite for respecting the GNU GPL and other such open source licenses.
That said, this is a valuable service. If I were ever willing to consider turning off an adblocker anywhere, this would be where I'd start.
If a link is posted here and requires a subscription, how does that further the conversation you are intending by posting the link?
I want real humans paid for their efforts! If that is the primary concern then we shouldn't be posting non-public links into a public forum for discussion?
Personally I am for anything that can decouple advertising from reporting. There are just too many perverse incentives that it creates.
In this case, theinformation.com articles are still paywalled in archive links. So I just pasted the contents.
IIRC one of the sites still has a “buy me a coffee” link, as if the owner needs it.