Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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01 / recommendation
“And if I recommended The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect last time, there is a sequel called A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace.”
02 / recommendation
“Ubuntu. I like Ubuntu MATE, however you pronounce that MATE. You’ve gotten LLaMA into tinygrad, you’ve gotten stable diffusion into tinygrad.”
03 / recommendation
“Now I like that. You know what does a good job at this? MyPie. I love MyPie. MyPie, this fancy type checker for Python.”
04 / belief
“I mean, a lot of us have that. I think Andre is as legit as it gets in that he just wants to teach you.”
05 / belief
“I took a political approach at comma too, that I think is pretty interesting. I think Elon takes the same political approach.”
06 / commitment
“I will be doing that shortly. I have to. There’s just so much history with one, two, and three.”
07 / belief
“We’re actually going to build that, I think, but it’s not going to be one static tape.”
08 / belief
“I think once you have AI girlfriends, oh boy, does it get interesting. Well, maybe let’s go there.”
09 / 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.”
10 / 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.”
11 / uncertainty
“You’ll see they’re all apples on the front page when you search Apple. And I don’t know.”
12 / belief
“The romantic realm is weird, definitely weird, but not out of the realm of the kind of weirdness that human civilization is capable of, I think.”
13 / belief
“I think you and I probably have different threshold for cringe code. You probably hate cringe code.”
14 / belief
“Everything running in the universe is computation, I think. I believe the extended [inaudible 00:07:53] thesis.”
15 / belief
“Wow the little thing has learned to mimic. Then I realized that that’s all we are too.”
16 / observation
“We need to have one model that we control and align. This is the only way you end up paper clipped.”
17 / belief
“I think that Eliezer Yudkowsky is scared of these things. And I am scared of these things too.”
18 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I downloaded the plugin maybe two months ago. I tried it again and found the same.”
19 / 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.”
20 / belief
“Sure. I think the most obvious way to me is wire heading. We end up amusing ourselves to death.”
21 / belief
“I think that we’re going to get super scary memes once the AIs actually are superhuman.”
22 / 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.”
23 / 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.”
24 / belief
“I think you’ve mentioned this to me or somewhere where people think it’s easy conceptually.”
25 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I just think that that’s why it’s harder. Yeah, maybe it is my biases.”
26 / evaluation
“Oh, well, let’s start with the fact that the 7,900 XTX kernel drivers don’t work.”
27 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, the programming language that does some interesting ideas that intersect tinygrad.”
28 / uncertainty
“You know it’s interesting, is that there’s so many possible trajectories in human history where you could have the next Google be open source. So for example, I don’t know if the connection is accurate, but Wikipedia made a lot of interesting decisions, not to put ads.”
29 / commitment
“You’re saying that, “Look, LLMs, and AI, and machine intelligence can cause a lot of harm, so nobody should have it.” And I will respect someone philosophically with that position, just like I will respect someone philosophically with the position that nobody should have guns.”
30 / uncertainty
“Oh, no. We don’t know what the ceiling is for the biostack either. The biostack just seems to move slower.”
31 / belief
“About a whole matrix coming at him. I think that’s Andrew Tate’s word for it. Sorry to borrow it.”
32 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. Well, first of all, you’re using language mostly to communicate youth and beauty and power and status.”
33 / uncertainty
“There’s so much hype, at least on Twitter. I don’t know. Maybe Twitter’s not real life.”
34 / belief
“I think you can define the ideal no more than just saying Elon’s idea of a good world, freedom of expression is.”
35 / 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.”
36 / 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.”
37 / 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.”
38 / 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.”
39 / belief
“I’m like, yeah, you know what? I think in two years, I’m going to start using these plugins a little bit.”
40 / belief
“In a fundamental way I agree with you, but there just feels like so much uncertainty, and so much can happen rapidly that you can lose a lot of control, and you can do a lot of damage.”
41 / belief
“To be fair, do I think AI kills us all? I think AI kills everything we call society today.”
42 / observation
“Absolutely. It’s the only way. You think you’re going to control it. You’re not going to control it.”
43 / 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.”
44 / 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.”
45 / 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.”
46 / belief
“I think we dramatize everything. I think that you ask the milk man when he saw refrigerators.”
47 / belief
“Look, my prediction for TensTorrent is that they’re going to pivot to making risk five chips, CPUs.”
48 / belief
“I think crypto is just carrying the flame of that spirit, of stuff should be decentralized.”
49 / belief
“Not people who believe that the saving the environment is good, I agree with you.”
50 / belief
“I mean okay, other two other games that I think are very noteworthy for me are Skyrim and GTA 5.”
51 / 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.”
52 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I don’t know if it would upset God. I think he wants that. I mean, I certainly want that from my creations.”
53 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I think all of us have a deep loneliness. It just feels like the language models are there.”
54 / uncertainty
“I don’t know about AGI. I think we’re a long way away from that. But I would not be surprised, if in the next five years, Bing overtakes Google as a search engine.”
55 / observation
“The problem is if you go back to 1960 and you tell them that you have a machine that can play amazing chess, of course someone in 1960 will tell you that machine is intelligent.”
56 / belief
“I think things like MuZero and AlphaGo are so much more impressive because these things are playing beyond the highest human level.”
57 / uncertainty
“I mean, boilerplate as a part of code, and some of it is just faster lookup. Because I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember everything.”
58 / belief
“I think that there’s a spectrum and on one side you have Mojo and on the other side you have ggml.”
59 / evaluation
“The chips were good, the software was terrible. Part of the reason is because I think the same problem’s happening with Dojo.”
60 / recommendation
“I think that you have to write a competitive machine learning framework in order to be able to build an ASIC.”
61 / belief
“The power of imagination or the power of the mechanism in the human mind that fills the gaps that reaches and wants to make the thing you see in the virtual world real to you. I believe in that power.”
62 / preference
“I won’t even say this so cynically. I will actually say this in a way that I want AI friends.”
63 / evaluation
“” I’m like, “Oh, what do you mean time doesn’t exist?” I think time is a useful model, whether it exists or not.”
64 / preference
“Just quick stuff because so much of programming is doing some boilerplate, but to do so efficiently and quickly because you can’t really automate it fully with generic method, a generic kind of IDE type of recommendation or something like this.”
65 / prediction
“I think accelerationism is the only thing that’s ever lifted people out of poverty.”
66 / evaluation
“I do not think anarchy in the physical world is very good because I exist in the physical world.”
67 / evaluation
“I think Scala has some beauty that Kotlin lacked, whereas Kotlin felt a lot more… I mean, I don’t know if it actually was a response to Swift, but that’s kind of what it felt like.”
68 / preference
“For the same reason, I gave away all my books and switched to Kindle, because all right, how long are we going to have paper books?”