Karpathy's example: ask a frontier model whether to drive or walk to a car wash 50 meters away

and it says walk — missing the obvious fact that the car needs to get there too. Models are excellent at anything checkable and surprisingly bad at real-world judgment calls

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PublishedJul 12, 2026

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Karpathy's example: ask a frontier model whether to drive or walk to a car wash 50 meters away

and it says walk — missing the obvious fact that the car needs to get there too. Models are excellent at anything checkable and surprisingly bad at real-world judgment calls

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