Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162

Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, previously at AMD, Apple, Tesla, Intel, and now Tenstorrent. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
1:33 – Good design is both science and engineering
7:33 – Javascript
11:40 – RISC vs CISC
15:39 – What makes a great processor?
17:09 – Intel vs ARM
18:58 – Steve Jobs and Apple
21:36 – Elon Musk and Steve Jobs
27:21 – Father
31:03 – Perfection
37:18 – Modular design
42:52 – Moore’s law
49:50 – Hardware for deep learning
56:44 – Making neural networks fast at scale
1:04:22 – Andrej Karpathy and Chris Lattner
1:08:36 – How GPUs work
1:12:43 – Tesla Autopilot, NVIDIA, and Mobileye
1:17:23 – Andrej Karpathy and Software 2.0
1:23:43 – Tesla Dojo
1:26:20 – Neural networks will understand physics better than humans
1:28:33 – Re-engineering the human brain
1:33:26 – Infinite fun and the Culture Series by Iain Banks
1:35:20 – Neuralink
1:40:43 – Dreams
1:44:37 – Ideas
1:54:49 – Aliens
1:59:46 – Jordan Peterson
2:04:44 – Viruses
2:07:52 – WallStreetBets and Robinhood
2:15:55 – Advice for young people
2:17:45 – Human condition
2:20:14 – Fear is a cage
2:25:04 – Love
2:31:27 – Regrets

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