Karpathy: LLMs are Ghost Summoners, Not AI Animal Creators

Karpathy: LLMs are Ghost Summoners, Not AI Animal Creators

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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has sparked discussion by comparing Large Language Model (LLM) research to ‘summoning ghosts’ rather than constructing artificial animals. The thought-provoking analogy, shared on X, suggests a focus on eliciting emergent behaviors from existing systems rather than building truly autonomous intelligence. The full discussion can be found on Reddit.