Anthropic's Karpathy says 75% of people have barely touched large language models
andrej karpathy estimates 20 million professionals use frontier models for work, while 5,000 people have access to internal frontier systems, showing a widening gap in ai understanding.
anthropie's andrej karpathy, co-founder of openai, notes that 75% of the world's population, about 6 billion people, have barely interacted with large language models. in contrast, 20 million professionals in math and programming use frontier models for work, and 5,000 people have access to internal frontier systems. karpathy highlights a widening gap in understanding ai capabilities, with the public viewing chatbots as simple tools, while advanced users see them tackling complex tasks that would take experts years to complete.