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Published · transcript-backedGeorge Hotz: evaluation
30 Jun 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
“The chips were good, the software was terrible. Part of the reason is because I think the same problem’s happening with Dojo.”
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- George Hotz
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- evaluation
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- 30 Jun 2023
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Can you just linger on what problem Tinygrad solves? Tinygrad solves the problem of porting new ML accelerators quickly. One of the reasons, tons of these companies now, I think Sequoia marked Graphcore to zero, Cerebras, TensTorrent, Groq. All of these ML accelerator companies, they built chips. The chips were good, the software was terrible. Part of the reason is because I think the same problem’s happening with Dojo. It’s really, really hard to write a PyTorch port, because you have to write 250 kernels, and you have to tune them all for performance. What does Jim Keller think about Tinygrad? You guys hung out quite a bit. He was involved. He’s involved with TensTorrent.…
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