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Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy

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.[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).

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.[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]

References

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    Andrej Karpathy publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Fan, Shelly (20 December 2015). "Inside OpenAI: Will Transparency Protect Us From Artificial Intelligence Run Amok?". Singularity Hub. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
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    Etherington, Darrell (21 June 2017). "Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  22. [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.
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    "Andrej Karpathy (Innovators Under 35 2020)". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  24. [24]
    Kolodny, Lora (13 July 2022). "Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he's leaving the company". CNBC. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  25. [25]
    "Andrej Karpathy - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  26. [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. [27]
    "OpenAI Researcher Andrew Karpathy Departs". 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
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