AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline
OpenAI cofounder and AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has strongly pushed back against the “agentic AI” hype, characterizing the current generation of autonomous AI systems as “slop.” Karpathy has directly challenged the notion that autonomous AI agents are on the cusp of delivering as promised, positioning himself in contrast to the optimistic timelines often suggested by figures like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
“I feel like the industry is making too big of a jump and is trying to pretend like this is amazing, and it’s not. It’s slop,” Karpathy said on The Dwarkesh Podcast.
