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George Hotz: belief

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

“I think what’s going to happen is, okay. If you’re trying to make an AI accelerator, you better have the capability of writing a Torch-level performance stack on Nvidia GPUs.”

— George Hotz

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

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…Oh, interesting. You think the diversity of AI accelerators in the hardware space is not going to be a thing that exists long term? I think what’s going to happen is, okay. If you’re trying to make an AI accelerator, you better have the capability of writing a Torch-level performance stack on Nvidia GPUs. If you can’t write a Torch stack on Nvidia GPUs and I mean all the way, I mean down to the driver, there’s no way you’re going to be able to write it on your chip. Your chip’s worse than in Nvidia GPU. The first version of the chip you tape out, it’s definitely worse. Oh, you’re saying writing that stack is really tough?…

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