Biography:Andrej Karpathy

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Short description: Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)
Andrej Karpathy
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Karpathy at Stanford in 2016
Born
Andrej Karpathy

(1986-10-23) 23 October 1986 (age 37)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Alma mater
AwardsInnovators Under 35 (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine Learning
Computer Vision
Artificial intelligence[1]
Institutions
ThesisConnecting Images and Natural Language (2016)
Doctoral advisorFei-Fei Li
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Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986[2]) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He currently works for OpenAI,[3][4][5] where he specializes in deep learning and computer vision.[6][7][1][8]

Education and early life

Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)[9][10][11][12] and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15.[13] He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degrees at University of Toronto in 2009[14] and his master's degree at University of British Columbia in 2011,[14] where he worked on physically-simulated figures (for example, a simulated runner or a simulated person in a crowd).

Karpathy received a PhD from Stanford University in 2016 under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li, focusing on the intersection of natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task.[15][16]

Career and research

He authored and was the primary instructor of the first deep learning course at Stanford, CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition.[17] It became one of the largest classes at Stanford, growing from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 2017.[18]

Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI,[19][20] where he was a research scientist from 2015 to 2017.[18] In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence and reported to Elon Musk.[21][7][22] He was named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 for 2020.[23] After taking a several months-long sabbatical from Tesla, he announced he was leaving the company in July 2022.[24] As of February 2023, he makes YouTube videos on how to create artificial neural networks.[25]

In February 2023, Karpathy announced he was returning to OpenAI.[26]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  2. ↑ "Self-reported on twitter". https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/261161354969358337. 
  3. ↑ "Tesla's Autopilot chief steps down after two years". 26 April 2018. http://www.autonews.com/article/20180426/COPY01/304269959. Retrieved 9 August 2018. 
  4. ↑ "A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up". 7 November 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/technology/artificial-intelligence-start-up.html. Retrieved 9 August 2018. 
  5. ↑ "A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit". 19 April 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html. Retrieved 9 August 2018. 
  6. ↑ "The Guy Who Taught AI to 'Remember' Is Launching a Startup". 28 July 2018. https://www.wired.com/2015/07/guy-taught-ai-remember-launching-startup/. Retrieved 9 August 2018. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Elon Musk has poached a top mind in AI research—from himself". 21 June 2017. https://qz.com/1011376/elon-musk-poached-andrej-karpathy-from-openai-to-be-teslas-tsla-director-of-artificial-intelligence/. Retrieved 9 August 2018. 
  8. ↑ Template:Medium.com
  9. ↑ "The Slovak, who leads the development of AI at Tesla, is leaving. It was an honor, says Musk – Živé.sk" (in en-US). https://alwaysfreshnews.com/news/world/374155/the-slovak-who-leads-the-development-of-ai-at-tesla-is-leaving-it-was-an-honor-says-musk-zive-sk/. 
  10. ↑ Živé.sk (2020-06-25). "Šéf AI v Tesle: Rodák zo Slovenska je medzi TOP 35 mladými novátormi" (in sk). https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/147462/sef-ai-v-tesle-rodak-zo-slovenska-je-medzi-top-35-mladymi-novatormi/. 
  11. ↑ today, newsy (2022-03-28). "The Slovak, who leads AI in Tesla, left the company for several months. He jokes with Musk about TikTok" (in en-US). https://beta.newsy-today.com/the-slovak-who-leads-ai-in-tesla-left-the-company-for-several-months-he-jokes-with-musk-about-tiktok/. [yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  12. ↑ "Slovák Andrej Karpathy z Tesly patrí podľa MIT medzi 35 top inovátorov" (in sk-SK). 2020-06-23. https://www.teslamagazin.sk/andrej-karpathy-tesla-ocenenie-mit/. 
  13. ↑ "Next Generation Machine Learning - Training Deep Learning Models in a Browser: Andrej Karpathy Interview | DataScienceWeekly.org" (in en-US). DataScienceWeekly.org. https://www.datascienceweekly.org/data-scientist-interviews/training-deep-learning-models-browser-andrej-karpathy-interview. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Andrej Karpathy Academic Website" (in en). https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/. 
  15. ↑ Karpathy, Andrej (2016). Connecting Images and Natural Language. stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
  16. ↑ "Does 'robo-journalism' pose a threat to reporters?". 23 March 2017. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/does-robo-journalism-pose-a-threat-to-reporters-1.3019182. Retrieved 9 August 2018. 
  17. ↑ "Stanford University CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition". http://cs231n.stanford.edu/2015/. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Andrej Karpathy". https://karpathy.ai/. 
  19. ↑ "Introducing OpenAI" (in en). 2015-12-12. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/. 
  20. ↑ Fan, Shelly (2015-12-20). "Inside OpenAI: Will Transparency Protect Us From Artificial Intelligence Run Amok?" (in en-US). https://singularityhub.com/2015/12/20/inside-openai-will-transparency-protect-us-from-artificial-intelligence-run-amok/. 
  21. ↑ Etherington, Darrell (2017-06-21). "Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/tesla-hires-deep-learning-expert-andrej-karpathy-to-lead-autopilot-vision/. 
  22. ↑ "Tesla hired a top AI expert to lead a critical aspect of Autopilot -- here's what we know". 22 June 2017. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tesla-andrej-karpathy-autopilot-vision-2017-6. Retrieved 9 August 2018. 
  23. ↑ "Andrej Karpathy (Innovators Under 35 2020)". MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/andrej-karpathy/. Retrieved 8 September 2022. 
  24. ↑ Kolodny, Lora (2022-07-13). "Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he's leaving the company" (in en). https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/tesla-ai-leader-andrej-karpathy-announces-hes-leaving-the-company.html. 
  25. ↑ "Andrej Karpathy - YouTube". https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy. 
  26. ↑ @karpathy. "Some personal news: I am joining OpenAI (again :)). Like many others both in/out of AI, I am very inspired by the impact of their work and I have personally benefited greatly from it. The future potential is especially exciting; it is a great pleasure to jump back in and build!🪄". https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1623476659369443328.  Missing or empty |date= (help)



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