Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy says "the external world has seen the preview" of what AI can actually do

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Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy says "the external world has seen the preview" of what AI can actually do, according to The Decoder. Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and now at Anthropic, sees a widening knowledge gap in AI. About 75 percent of the world's population has barely touched LLMs. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco.

Roughly 5,000 people, meanwhile, have access to internal frontier systems whose agent swarms do work that would take top experts years. About 75 percent of the world's population has barely touched large language model (the kind of AI system trained on text to produce text)s.

Casual users mostly see them as writing aids or a better search engine. Only about 20 million professionals in math and programming use frontier models for work, by Karpathy's estimate.

Roughly 5,000 people worldwide have access to internal frontier systems. Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, describes a rapidly widening gap in how people understand AI capabilities.

While the public treats chatbots like a better Google search, internal frontier systems are already tackling tasks that would take top experts years to complete. Karpathy breaks down the user base of large language models into four levels. About six billion people, roughly 75 percent of the global population, have barely come in contact with LLMs at all.