Andrej Karpathy on AGI in 2023: Societal Transformation and the Reasoning Debate

Published:Jan 1, 2026 10:23
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Analysis

The article summarizes Andrej Karpathy's 2023 perspective on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Karpathy believes AGI will significantly impact society. However, he anticipates the ongoing debate surrounding whether AGI truly possesses reasoning capabilities, highlighting the skepticism and the technical arguments against it (e.g., token prediction, matrix multiplication). The article's brevity suggests it's a summary of a larger discussion or presentation.

Reference

“is it really reasoning?”, “how do you define reasoning?” “it’s just next token prediction/matrix multiply”.