Comment by gcanyon
20 hours ago
> So this is the weirdness of the moment.
I think "moment" significantly undersells this. Frankly, I wonder if this isn't setting vast swaths of the population on fundamentally different paths.
Currently the difference in life outcomes between people who know how to use computers well and those who don't is small enough that in everyday life we just ignore it. But it's greater than, say, the difference between people who took advantage of refrigeration and those who stuck with ice boxes, or those who learned how to drive a car and those who didn't.
And the difference with AI is going to be even greater. And it's possible that right now people are choosing a life course that will benefit or disadvantage them long term.
How does one who doesn’t have an employer funding their massive token budgets become “good at AI” the way that Karpathy describes here?
I think the point is that this gap exists partially because of the access that a select few have today, which enables them to do things that the have-nots can’t fathom.
Sure, but is that different than in the past? Those who could afford computers got good with computers. Those who could afford cars learned to drive. etc., etc.