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

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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