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

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:
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(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