Andrej Karpathy: What if neural nets became the computer itself?

Name: Andrej Karpathy: What if neural nets became the computer itself?
Uploaded: 2026-05-08T15:31:34.534Z
Duration: 1 min 1 s
Channel: Sequoia Capital
Description: Andrej Karpathy imagines a future where neural networks are the host process and CPUs are just co-processors. A complete inversion of today. From his conversation with Stephanie Zhan at Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent. #shorts #ai #neuralnetworks #futuretech

By Sequoia Capital

Categories: VC, Startup

Transcript Excerpt

What will look completely obvious in hindsight that is still mostly unbuilt today? So, you could imagine completely neural computers in a certain sense. I kind of feel like in the early days of computing actually, people were a little bit confused as to whether computers would look like calculators or computers would look like neural nets. And in '50s and '60s it was not really obvious which way would go. And of course we went down the calculator path and ended up building classical computing. A...