> But some critics said that Karpathy had done little more than rediscover part of a process known as AutoML that researchers at Google, Microsoft, and other AI labs have already been using for years. AutoML also uses an optimization loop and series of experiments to find the best data to use for AI, the best model architecture to use, and to tune that model architecture.

For context, one experiment showing that classical black-box optimization did better than Autoresearch: https://github.com/ferreirafabio/autoresearch-automl