Andrej Karpathy? Apocryphal?
Question for Quote Investigator: The capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems have dramatically improved in recent years. One important challenge for AI has been the synthesis of computer programs based on English language descriptions. Apparently, a prominent AI researcher said:
The hottest new programming language is English
Would you please help me to find a citation for this remark?
Reply from Quote Investigator: On January 24, 2023 AI researcher Andrej Karpathy tweeted the following. Boldface added to excerpts by QI:1
The hottest new programming language is English
Andrej Karpathy is best known for co-founding the OpenAI company and working on computer vision for the autopilot system at Tesla.
In conclusion, Andrej Karpathy deserves credit for this statement which he tweeted in 2023.
Image Notes: Screen displaying computer code. The image has been cropped and resized.