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George Hotz: recommendation

30 Jun 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

“I think that you have to write a competitive machine learning framework in order to be able to build an ASIC.”

— George Hotz

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Speaker
George Hotz
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recommendation
Recorded
30 Jun 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…You’re really worried about the centralization of Nvidia. That’s interesting. You don’t have a fundamental hope for the proliferation of ASICs except in the cloud? I’d like to help them with software. No, actually, the only ASIC that is remotely successful is Google’s TPU. The only reason that’s successful is because Google wrote a machine learning framework. I think that you have to write a competitive machine learning framework in order to be able to build an ASIC. You think Meta with PyTorch builds a competitor?…

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