#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 195 minutes
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George's Twitter: https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz
George's Twitch: https://twitch.tv/georgehotz
George's Instagram: https://instagram.com/georgehotz
Tiny Corp's Twitter: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__
Tiny Corp's Website: https://tinygrad.org/
Comma-ai's Twitter: https://twitter.com/comma_ai
Comma-ai's Website: https://comma.ai/
Comma-ai's YouTube (unofficial): https://youtube.com/georgehotzarchive
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Learning a Driving Simulator (paper): https://bit.ly/42T6lAN
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(08:04) - Time is an illusion
(17:44) - Memes
(20:20) - Eliezer Yudkowsky
(32:45) - Virtual reality
(39:04) - AI friends
(46:29) - tiny corp
(59:50) - NVIDIA vs AMD
(1:02:47) - tinybox
(1:14:56) - Self-driving
(1:29:35) - Programming
(1:37:31) - AI safety
(2:02:29) - Working at Twitter
(2:40:12) - Prompt engineering
(2:46:08) - Video games
(3:02:23) - Andrej Karpathy
(3:12:28) - Meaning of life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with George Hots, his third time on this podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | He's the founder of Kama AI that seeks to solve autonomous driving and is the founder of a new company |
| 0:11.2 | called TinyCorp that created TinyGrad, a neural network framework that is extremely simple, |
| 0:18.2 | with a goal of making it run on any device by any human, easily and officially. |
| 0:25.1 | As you know, George also did a large number of fun and amazing things from hack-in-i-phone |
| 0:30.6 | to recently joining Twitter for a bit as an intern in quotes, making the case for refactoring |
| 0:37.4 | the Twitter code base. In general, he's a fascinating engineer and human being and one of my |
| 0:42.7 | favorite people to talk to. And now a quick few second mention of his sponsor. Check them out in |
| 0:49.2 | the description is the best way to support this podcast. We got Numerai for the world's hardest |
| 0:54.8 | data science tournament, Babble for learning new languages, that's sweet for business management |
| 0:59.7 | software, Inside Tracker for Blood paneling and AG1 for my daily multi-vitamin. She's wise |
| 1:05.9 | than my friends. Also, if you want to work on our team, we're always hiring go to LexFreedman.com |
| 1:11.3 | slash hiring. And now onto the full ad reads, as always, no ads in the middle. I try to make this |
| 1:16.7 | interesting, but if you must skip them, friends, please do check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. |
| 1:22.0 | Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by Numerai, a hedge fund that uses artificial |
| 1:28.5 | intelligence and machine learning to make investment decisions. They created a tournament that |
| 1:32.8 | challenges data scientists to build best predictive models for financial markets. It's basically just a |
| 1:38.8 | really, really difficult real world data set to test out your ideas for how to build machine learning |
| 1:45.2 | models. I think this is a great educational platform. I think this is a great way to explore |
| 1:50.0 | to learn about machine learning to really test yourself on real world data with consequences. |
| 1:57.3 | No financial background is needed. The models are scored based on how well they perform an |
| 2:01.7 | unseen data. And the top performers receive a share of the tournament's prize pool. |
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