How does a former OpenAI and Tesla researcher and engineer turn off the lights in his house?
He said he connects them to an AI agent and asks a bot to do it, of course.
Andrej Karpathy — the founder at Eureka Labs, an OpenAI cofounder, the former director of AI at Tesla, and the engineer who coined the term “vibe coding” — told the “No Priors” podcast he’s built a system he calls “Dobby” (like the Harry Potter house elf) to handle some household chores.
“I have a claw basically that takes care of my home, and I call him Dobby the Elf Claw,” he said in the interview, which was released on Friday. “It controls all of my lights, my HVAC, my shades, the pool, the spa, and also the security system.”
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