Andrej Karpathy says this AI gap is widening

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says the world still barely knows AI.

Karpathy said he was following up on his April observation about a growing gap among AI users. Just over six months later, the renowned AI researcher who coined the term "vibe coding" sees the widening gap less as "two groups of people speaking past each other," as he phrased it in April, and more as a "sharp funnel."

Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel.- Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come… https://t.co/79xGhQdf1n

The situation, Karpathy said, is that based on his estimate, roughly 75% of the world's population "have barely come in contact" with large language models at all.

This group, he wrote, sees "large, complex projects that used to take them weeks/months can now be completed by agents with a prompt."

"It looks like swarms of thousands of agents collaborating over weeks on software mega projects: minting zero days, running cyber attacks and defenses at machine speeds, discovering new science, advancing the frontier of mathematics," he wrote. "Things that would have taken top professionals in the industry years of work."

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"For example, people are still involved in the 'archeology' of the OpenAI-HF incident from many months ago," he wrote. "Mathematicians may be poring over the 722 manuscripts on frontier mathematics for a while."

"The vast majority of people are using AI as a chatbot for simple interactions that approximate next-generation search," he wrote. "This is super useful but dramatically underrepresents the full capability of AI."