#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
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The following is a conversation with George Hotz, his third time on this podcast. He's the founder of Comma AI that seeks to solve autonomous driving and is the founder of a new company called TinyCorp that created TinyGrad, a neural network framework that is extremely simple with the goal of making it run on any device by any human easily and efficiently. As you know, George also did a large number of fun and amazing things, from hacking the iPhone to recently joining Twitter for a bit as an intern, in quotes, making the case for refactoring the Twitter code base. In general, he's a fascinating engineer and human being, and one of my favorite people to talk to. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description.
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I have been using it to learn a few languages, Spanish, to review Russian, to practice Russian, to revisit Russian from a different perspective, because that becomes more and more relevant for some of the previous conversations I've had and some upcoming conversations I have. It really is fascinating how much another language, knowing another language, even to a degree where you can just have little bits and pieces of a conversation, can really unlock an experience in another part of the world. When you travel in France and Paris, just having a few words at your disposal, a few phrases, it begins to really open you up to strange, fascinating new experiences that ultimately, at least to me, teach me that we're all the same. We have to first see our differences to realize those differences are grounded in a basic humanity. And that experience that we're all very different and yet at the core the same, I think travel with the aid of language really helps unlock
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