Models · Updated 12 Oct, 06:21 pm IST
Karpathy says public underestimates what advanced LLMs already do

Why it matters for readers: Makes clear that public-facing chatbots don’t represent the most powerful AI systems in use.
- Karpathy divides users into tiers, with about 75% of people having little contact with LLMs.1
- One to two billion casual users treat chatbots like a better search or a writing aid.1
- Around 20 million professional users of frontier LLMs use them to complete large, complex projects in math and code.1
- He says advanced agents can now finish tasks that previously took experts months, and this change happened quickly.1
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