The Man Who Summoned Ghosts | Chapter 1: The Man Who Stepped Away from the Wheel (opens in new tab)

Leaving Tesla, returning to first principles, and learning how to recalibrate in public. Originally published on Lei Hua's Substack. Epigraph "I think a few years ago, I sort of felt like AGI was — it wasn't clear how it was going to happen. ... And now I think it's very clear, and there's like a lot of space, and everyone is trying to fill it." — Andrej Karpathy, Sequoia AI Ascent · 2024-03 I. The Photo In March 2024, in a room at Sequoia's AI Ascent conference, Andrej Karpathy walked up to ...