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Models · Updated 12 Oct, 06:21 pm IST

Karpathy says public underestimates what advanced LLMs already do

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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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