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Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-10-29

Books mentioned on #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

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Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He’s the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. The Selfish Gene

    Richard Dawkins · at 3:09:46

    The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a landmark popular science book that reframes evolution around the gene rather than the organism.

    Discussed
    “I was very impacted by 'The Selfish Gene.' I thought that was a really good book that helped me understand altruism as an example and where it comes from, and just realizing that, you know, the selection is in the level of genes was a huge insight for me at the time, and it sort of like cleared up a”
    Speaker #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and A… 2022-10-29 Listen at 3:09:46
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