#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: lexfridman.com

EPISODE LINKS:
George’s Twitter: twitter.com
George’s Twitch: twitch.tv
George’s Instagram: instagram.com
Tiny Corp’s Twitter: twitter.com
Tiny Corp’s Website: tinygrad.org
Comma-ai’s Twitter: twitter.com
Comma-ai’s Website: comma.ai
Comma-ai’s YouTube (unofficial): youtube.com
Mentioned:
Learning a Driving Simulator (paper): bit.ly

PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: lexfridman.com
Apple Podcasts: apple.co
Spotify: spoti.fi
RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/
YouTube Full Episodes: youtube.com
YouTube Clips: youtube.com

SUPPORT & CONNECT:
– Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast
– Support on Patreon: www.patreon.com
– Twitter: twitter.com
– Instagram: www.instagram.com
– LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com
– Facebook: www.facebook.com
– Medium: medium.com

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(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