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George Hotz: uncertainty

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

“I don’t know. I downloaded the plugin maybe two months ago. I tried it again and found the same.”

— George Hotz

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Speaker
George Hotz
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
30 Jun 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…I wonder if you can now take GPT and give it a code that you wrote for function and say, how can I make this simpler and have it accomplish the same thing? I think you’ll get some good ideas on some code. Maybe not the code you write for tinygrad type of code because that requires so much design thinking, but other kinds of code. I don’t know. I downloaded the plugin maybe two months ago. I tried it again and found the same. Look, I don’t doubt that these models are going to first become useful to me, then be as good as me and then surpass me. But from what I’ve seen today, it’s like someone occasionally taking over my keyboard that I hired from Fiverr. Yeah, I’d rather not. But ideas about how to debug the code or basically a better debugger is it? It is really interesting.…

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