Musk Challenges AI Researcher Karpathy to Public Coding Contest Against Grok 5, Gets Declined
Summary
Elon Musk challenges former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy to a public coding contest between xAI's Grok 5 and Karpathy, likening it to the historic Deep Blue vs Kasparov chess match, but Karpathy declines, preferring collaboration over competition with AI models.
Key Points
- Elon Musk challenges former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy to a public coding contest between xAI's Grok 5 and Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov chess match
- Karpathy politely declines the challenge, stating his contribution would 'trend to ~zero' and preferring to collaborate with AI models rather than compete against them
- The challenge stems from Karpathy's recent comments that AGI remains a decade away and that Grok 5 trails GPT-4 by several months, while Musk claims Grok 5 has a 10% chance of reaching AGI