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Lex Fridman PodcastGeorge Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387
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- Released
- June 29, 2023
- Duration
- 3h 8m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
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TRANSCRIPT: https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz-3-transcript EPISODE LINKS: 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 Mentioned: Learning a Driving Simulator (paper): https://bit.ly/42T6lAN PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:39 - Time is an illusion 11:18 - Memes 13:55 - Eliezer Yudkowsky 26:19 - Virtual reality 32:38 - AI friends 40:03 - tiny corp 53:24 - NVIDIA vs AMD 56:21 - tinybox 1:08:30 - Self-driving 1:23:09 - Programming 1:31:06 - AI safety 1:56:03 - Working at Twitter 2:33:46 - Prompt engineering 2:39:42 - Video games 2:55:57 - Andrej Karpathy 3:06:02 - Meaning of life SOCIAL:
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SPEAKERS
Lex Fridman
hostGeorge Hotz
guestNarrator
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and George Hotz, George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 explores George Hotz on AI Freedom, Human Obsolescence, and Decentralized Compute Futures George Hotz and Lex Fridman explore how advanced AI may transform and possibly end current human civilization, emphasizing wireheading, super-stimulus media, and AI-accelerated social manipulation. Hotz argues that intelligence itself is dangerous, but centralized control of AI is far worse than open access, making open source and decentralized compute his core mission with TinyCorp and TinyGrad. They discuss why current large language models aren’t AGI, why reproduction and robustness matter more than raw intelligence, and how self-driving via Comma.ai is increasingly an RL-in-simulation problem. The conversation also dives into software engineering culture, Twitter’s codebase, VR, AI girlfriends, God, and what it means for humans to “win” in a world saturated with machine intelligence.
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