Former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has called AI systems an ‘alien tool’ that comes without a manual. The senior techie, who is often credited for Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) systems, also said that he hasn’t felt “this much behind as a programmer”.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-former-director-ai-autopilot-vision-tesla-wishes-was-told-advice-undergraduate-student-11766216206494.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”Karpathy”>Karpathy wrote, “The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and far between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just…

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