Jim Keller

Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He's known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 and Zen microarchitectures, Apple A4, A5 processors, and co-author of the specifications for the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect.

Outline:

0:00​ - Introduction
2:12​ - Difference between a computer and a human brain
3:43​ - Computer abstraction layers and parallelism
17:53​ - If you run a program multiple times, do you always get the same answer?
20:43​ - Building computers and teams of people
22:41​ - Start from scratch every 5 years
30:05​ - Moore's law is not dead
55:47​ - Is superintelligence the next layer of abstraction?
1:00:02​ - Is the universe a computer?
1:03:00​ - Ray Kurzweil and exponential improvement in technology
1:04:33​ - Elon Musk and Tesla Autopilot
1:20:51​ - Lessons from working with Elon Musk
1:28:33​ - Existential threats from AI
1:32:38​ - Happiness and the meaning of life

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Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, previously at AMD, Apple, Tesla, Intel, and now Tenstorrent.

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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