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

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:

Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

(00:00) - Introduction

(07:02) - Good design is both science and engineering

(13:03) - Javascript

(17:09) - RISC vs CISC

(21:09) - What makes a great processor?

(22:38) - Intel vs ARM

(24:27) - Steve Jobs and Apple

(27:05) - Elon Musk and Steve Jobs

(32:50) - Father

(36:33) - Perfection

(42:48) - Modular design

(48:22) - Moore's law

(55:20) - Hardware for deep learning

(1:02:14) - Making neural networks fast at scale

(1:09:51) - Andrej Karpathy and Chris Lattner

(1:14:05) - How GPUs work

(1:18:12) - Tesla Autopilot, NVIDIA, and Mobileye

(1:22:52) - Andrej Karpathy and Software 2.0

(1:29:13) - Tesla Dojo

(1:31:49) - Neural networks will understand physics better than humans

(1:34:02) - Re-engineering the human brain

(1:38:56) - Infinite fun and the Culture Series by Iain Banks

(1:40:50) - Neuralink

(1:46:13) - Dreams

(1:50:06) - Ideas

(2:00:19) - Aliens

(2:05:16) - Jordan Peterson

(2:10:13) - Viruses

(2:13:22) - WallStreetBets and Robinhood

(2:21:25) - Advice for young people

(2:23:15) - Human condition

(2:25:43) - Fear is a cage

(2:30:34) - Love

(2:36:57) - Regrets