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Morning Edition · Monday, October 12, 2026Published at 2:16 AM EDT · New York
Altman says AI became smarter than humans this year as Karpathy describes a steep gap in public understanding
Karpathy, now on Anthropic's pretraining team, estimates that about 6 billion people have barely used a language model while about 5,000 people live in a different AI world.
Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, said "this was the year that I think AI got smarter than us," according to a post by the AI Post channel. The post adds that Altman does not expect superior AI to make people happier and does not claim…
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