tool / likes
MyPie
“Now I like that. You know what does a good job at this? MyPie. I love MyPie. MyPie, this fancy type checker for Python.”
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George Hotz
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- Shows
- 2
- Named items
- 4
Books, apps, and tools
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book / recommends
A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace
“And if I recommended The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect last time, there is a sequel called A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace.”
book / recommends
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
“And if I recommended The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect last time, there is a sequel called A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace.”
person / built
Kama
“I'm going to build a box for Kama and then I'm going to show off the box I built for Kama and be like, okay, like, do you want to build?”
Claim ledger
What George said.
34 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
I took a political approach at comma too, that I think is pretty interesting. I think Elon takes the same political approach.
“I took a political approach at comma too, that I think is pretty interesting. I think Elon takes the same political approach.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / belief
We’re actually going to build that, I think, but it’s not going to be one static tape.
“We’re actually going to build that, I think, but it’s not going to be one static tape.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / belief
I think he does. And this is exactly what I mean and why I bet on him so much more than I bet on Google.
“I think he does. And this is exactly what I mean and why I bet on him so much more than I bet on Google.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
04 / belief
I actually think it’s incredible that we’re starting to see… I think, again, Elon’s doing so much stuff right with Twitter, like charging people money.
“I actually think it’s incredible that we’re starting to see… I think, again, Elon’s doing so much stuff right with Twitter, like charging people money.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
05 / belief
Everything running in the universe is computation, I think. I believe the extended [inaudible 00:07:53] thesis.
“Everything running in the universe is computation, I think. I believe the extended [inaudible 00:07:53] thesis.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
06 / belief
Wow the little thing has learned to mimic. Then I realized that that’s all we are too.
“Wow the little thing has learned to mimic. Then I realized that that’s all we are too.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
07 / belief
I think that Eliezer Yudkowsky is scared of these things. And I am scared of these things too.
“I think that Eliezer Yudkowsky is scared of these things. And I am scared of these things too.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
08 / belief
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.
“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.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
09 / belief
Sure. I think the most obvious way to me is wire heading. We end up amusing ourselves to death.
“Sure. I think the most obvious way to me is wire heading. We end up amusing ourselves to death.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
10 / belief
I think that we’re going to get super scary memes once the AIs actually are superhuman.
“I think that we’re going to get super scary memes once the AIs actually are superhuman.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
11 / belief
If consciousness is a spectrum, I’m definitely way more conscious than the large language models are. I think the large language models are less conscious than a chicken.
“If consciousness is a spectrum, I’m definitely way more conscious than the large language models are. I think the large language models are less conscious than a chicken.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
12 / belief
You can read the code. I think the code is easier to read, it’s less lines. There’s just a few things about the way tinygrad writes things.
“You can read the code. I think the code is easier to read, it’s less lines. There’s just a few things about the way tinygrad writes things.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
13 / belief
About a whole matrix coming at him. I think that’s Andrew Tate’s word for it. Sorry to borrow it.
“About a whole matrix coming at him. I think that’s Andrew Tate’s word for it. Sorry to borrow it.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
14 / belief
I think you can define the ideal no more than just saying Elon’s idea of a good world, freedom of expression is.
“I think you can define the ideal no more than just saying Elon’s idea of a good world, freedom of expression is.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
15 / belief
I think future LLMs are going to be smaller, but are going to run looping on themselves and are going to have retrieval systems.
“I think future LLMs are going to be smaller, but are going to run looping on themselves and are going to have retrieval systems.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
16 / belief
I think that there’s some things that are nicer about Tinygrad’s syntax than PyTorch, but their front end looks very Torch-like.
“I think that there’s some things that are nicer about Tinygrad’s syntax than PyTorch, but their front end looks very Torch-like.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
17 / belief
I don’t believe what anyone says. I believe incentives. If a company wanted to buy Comma with their incentives, were to keep it open source.
“I don’t believe what anyone says. I believe incentives. If a company wanted to buy Comma with their incentives, were to keep it open source.”
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- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
18 / belief
Look, I think Microsoft… Again, I wouldn’t count on it to be true forever, but I think right now, Microsoft is doing the best work in the programming world, between GitHub, GitHub Actions VS Code, the improvements to Python, it was Microsoft.
“Look, I think Microsoft… Again, I wouldn’t count on it to be true forever, but I think right now, Microsoft is doing the best work in the programming world, between GitHub, GitHub Actions VS Code, the improvements to Python, it was Microsoft.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
19 / belief
I’m like, yeah, you know what? I think in two years, I’m going to start using these plugins a little bit.
“I’m like, yeah, you know what? I think in two years, I’m going to start using these plugins a little bit.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
20 / belief
To be fair, do I think AI kills us all? I think AI kills everything we call society today.
“To be fair, do I think AI kills us all? I think AI kills everything we call society today.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
21 / belief
I mean, yeah. And I think that if someone is actually serious enough to hire a hitman or build a bomb, they’d also be serious enough to find the information.
“I mean, yeah. And I think that if someone is actually serious enough to hire a hitman or build a bomb, they’d also be serious enough to find the information.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
22 / belief
Now, there’s a few things I think I do understand and know more about, but in general, I’m not qualified to run Twitter.
“Now, there’s a few things I think I do understand and know more about, but in general, I’m not qualified to run Twitter.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
23 / belief
I think if you ask me, Google’s still the number one webpage. I think by the end of the decade Google won’t be the number one my bed anymore.
“I think if you ask me, Google’s still the number one webpage. I think by the end of the decade Google won’t be the number one my bed anymore.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
24 / belief
I think we dramatize everything. I think that you ask the milk man when he saw refrigerators.
“I think we dramatize everything. I think that you ask the milk man when he saw refrigerators.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
25 / belief
Look, my prediction for TensTorrent is that they’re going to pivot to making risk five chips, CPUs.
“Look, my prediction for TensTorrent is that they’re going to pivot to making risk five chips, CPUs.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
26 / belief
Not people who believe that the saving the environment is good, I agree with you.
“Not people who believe that the saving the environment is good, I agree with you.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
27 / belief
I mean okay, other two other games that I think are very noteworthy for me are Skyrim and GTA 5.
“I mean okay, other two other games that I think are very noteworthy for me are Skyrim and GTA 5.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
28 / belief
If the AI apocalypse happens, I mean the AIs are going to probably die out because I think we’re going to get, again, super intelligence long before we get robustness.
“If the AI apocalypse happens, I mean the AIs are going to probably die out because I think we’re going to get, again, super intelligence long before we get robustness.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
29 / belief
I think things like MuZero and AlphaGo are so much more impressive because these things are playing beyond the highest human level.
“I think things like MuZero and AlphaGo are so much more impressive because these things are playing beyond the highest human level.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
30 / belief
I think that there’s a spectrum and on one side you have Mojo and on the other side you have ggml.
“I think that there’s a spectrum and on one side you have Mojo and on the other side you have ggml.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
31 / belief
I want to make sure that can't happen structurally. So that's why I realized that it's really important that I do this.
“I want to make sure that can't happen structurally. So that's why I realized that it's really important that I do this.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Latent Space
32 / belief
I think the best chatbot models are going to be the ones where you had a thousand training runs instead of one.
“I think the best chatbot models are going to be the ones where you had a thousand training runs instead of one.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Latent Space
33 / belief
Like, we'll just, I think, think of it as maybe more of, like, a stipend than a salary.
“Like, we'll just, I think, think of it as maybe more of, like, a stipend than a salary.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Latent Space
34 / belief
Coming back to what I think is actually gonna happen is, yeah, people are gonna train smaller models for longer and fine-tune them and find all these tricks.
“Coming back to what I think is actually gonna happen is, yeah, people are gonna train smaller models for longer and fine-tune them and find all these tricks.”
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Publisher
- Latent Space