Andrej Karpathy likens LLMs to 'people spirits'

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-07-11 00:31

Andrej Karpathy discussed Large Language Models (LLMs) in a talk, describing them as "people spirits." He characterized these models as stochastic simulations of human behavior, trained on extensive text datasets. AI

IMPACT Offers a conceptual framing for understanding LLM behavior and training.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece from a notable figure in the AI field.

Read on Mastodon — fosstodon.org →

Karpathy

opinion

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 1 sources. How we write summaries →

Andrej Karpathy likens LLMs to 'people spirits'

COVERAGE [1]

Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] · 2026-07-11 00:31

One of the more philosophical parts of Karpathy’s talk was his characterization of LLMs as “people spirits,” stochastic simulations of human behavior trained on

One of the more philosophical parts of Karpathy’s talk was his characterization of LLMs as “people spirits,” stochastic simulations of human behavior trained on vast corpora of text Read more 👉 https:// lttr.ai/AtB7G # AI # SoftwareDevelopment # Development

LINKS ruhanirabin.com/…/andre-karpathy-evolutio…

COVERAGE [1]

One of the more philosophical parts of Karpathy’s talk was his characterization of LLMs as “people spirits,” stochastic simulations of human behavior trained on

RELATED ENTITIES

RELATED TOPICS