Andrej Karpathy on one of AI's weirdest flaws: the car wash problem

Name: Andrej Karpathy on one of AI's weirdest flaws: the car wash problem
Uploaded: 2026-05-09T14:58:43.353Z
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Channel: Sequoia Capital
Description: Andrej Karpathy on the "jagged frontier" and why the same model that finds zero-day vulnerabilities cannot figure out basic common sense. From his conversation with Stephanie Zhan at Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent. #shorts #ai #llm #karpathy

By Sequoia Capital

Categories: VC, Startup

Transcript Excerpt

So, I think the reason I wrote about verifiability is I'm trying to understand why these things are so jagged. And some of it has to do with how the labs train the models, but I think some of it also has to do with the focus of the labs and what they happen to put into the data distribution. >> [music] >> Because some things basically are significantly more valuable in economy and end up trading more environments because the labs wanted to work in those settings. So, I think code is a good examp...