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Animals vs Ghosts | karpathy
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karpathy.bearblog.dev Jan 23, 2026Tildes

Summary

[...] today's frontier LLM research is not about building animals. It is about summoning ghosts. You can think of ghosts as a fundamentally different kind of point in the space of possible intelligences. They are muddled by humanity. Thoroughly engineered by it. [...]