#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz-3-transcript
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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
Mentioned:
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
