Andrej Karpathy (1986-)

Example(s):
- Andrej Karpathy, 1986, when he was born on October 23, in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia).
- Andrej Karpathy, 2009, when he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Physics from the University of Toronto.
- Andrej Karpathy, 2015, when he published “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks,” showcasing RNN's capacity for text generation.
- Andrej Karpathy, 2017, when he became Director of AI at Tesla and worked on enhancing the neural networks powering Tesla Autopilot.
- Andrej Karpathy, 2017, when he introduced the concept of Software 2.0 in his influential blog post, which discussed the transition to neural networks driving software development.
- Andrej Karpathy, 2022, when he took a sabbatical from Tesla, leading to his departure from the company.
- Andrej Karpathy, 2023, when he returned to OpenAI and published “Let’s Build GPT: From Scratch,” contributing to educational efforts on large language models.
- Andrej Karpathy, 2024, when he founded Eureka Labs, a company focused on the intersection of AI and education.
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See: Visual Recognition, ImageNet Task, ConvNetJS, nanoGPT System, Software 2.0.

References

(Karpathy & Fei-Fei, 2015) ⇒ Andrej Karpathy, and Li Fei-Fei. (2015). “Deep Visual-semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions.” In: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

(Karpathy et al., 2014a) ⇒ Andrej Karpathy, George Toderici, Sanketh Shetty, Thomas Leung, Rahul Sukthankar, and Li Fei-Fei. (2014). “Large-scale Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks.” In: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 1725-1732.