Lex Fridman Podcast #387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
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Jun 30, 2023 
George Hotz, a renowned programmer and founder of comma.ai and TinyCorp, discusses the future of self-driving technology and AI safety. He shares insights on building AI for home use, the evolution of programming tools, and the philosophical implications of AI on consciousness and belief. Hotz also addresses challenges in managing tech innovations and the ethical concerns around AI companionship. With a unique perspective, he explores the balance between technological advancement and human autonomy.
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Time as a Model
- Time is a useful model for describing reality, regardless of its true nature.
- Quantum physics, like time, is valuable for its modeling capacity, not necessarily its objective existence.
Human vs. AI Model
- The declining performance of humans compared to rising AI models is concerning.
- The metric for this comparison could be people's preference between human and model output.
Real vs. Artificial Difficulty
- Artificial difficulty can be turned off, while real difficulty, like survival, cannot.
- George Hotz illustrates this with the story of Alexander Supertramp's artificial difficulty.