George Francis Hotz (geohot)


Transform any car into a self-driving car

Published on Jun 6, 2016

George Hotz, the programmer famous for cracking the iPhone and PlayStation 3, has turned his attention to building self-driving cars — and we got a ride.
 

E661: George Hotz founder Comma.ai on vision & tech behind his Tesla rival, self-driving car startup

Published on Jul 22, 2016

George Hotz is known for unlocking the iPhone and PlayStation, but most recently, as being the founder of Comma.ai, an autonomous driving startup. He and his team built a driver assistant system that will get increasingly more sophisticated, also known as Level 3. George deconstructs the core components of his technology, and explains how it can compensate for human error in driving. And paired with the up-and-coming phone app called Chffr, soon, they will have technology where you can compare data and optimize your commute. His success has much to do with his philosophy of staying open--to build prototypes, to get it out there, and to move the world forward.
 

George "Geohot" Hotz Presents the Comma One at Disrupt SF

Published on Sep 13, 2016

George Hotz of Comma.ai takes the stage to trash talk some other autonomous driving startups and launch a self-driving car kit before talking to Darrell Etherington about building and shipping the kit.
 

Why Comma.ai is giving away self-driving car technology

Published on Nov 30, 2016

Nov.30 -- George Hotz, Comma.ai founder, discusses self-driving car technology and regulations with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."
 

George Hotz presents Comma Neo

Published on Dec 8, 2016

December 8, 2016 - George Hotz presents Comma.ai's new technology at a kickoff event for Udacity's Self-Driving Car Nanodegree students.
 

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast

Published on Aug 5, 2019

George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, a machine learning based vehicle automation company. He is an outspoken personality in the field of AI and technology in general. He first gained recognition for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone, and since then has done quite a few interesting things at the intersection of hardware and software. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.
 

Are we living in a simulation? with George Hotz and Lex Fridman | AI Podcast Clips

Published on Aug 29, 2019

George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, a machine learning based vehicle automation company. He is an outspoken personality in the field of AI and technology in general. He first gained recognition for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone, and since then has done quite a few interesting things at the intersection of hardware and software.
 

George Hotz: Hacking the simulation & learning to drive with neural nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132

Oct 21, 2020

George Hotz (geohot) is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of Comma.ai.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
2:31 - Will human civilization destroy itself?
5:18 - Where are the aliens?
10:05 - Tic Tac UFO and Bob Lazar
12:33 - Conspiracy theories
14:36 - The programming language of life
18:57 - The games that humans play
27:27 - Memory leaks in the simulation
29:58 - Theories of everything
31:43 - Ethereum startup story
39:30 - Cryptocurrency
48:57 - Self-help advice
52:37 - Comma.ai
54:30 - Comma two
1:03:19 - Tesla vs Comma.ai
1:12:22 - Driver monitoring
1:26:03 - Communicating uncertainty
1:27:51 - Tesla Dojo
1:34:19 - Tesla Autopilot big rewrite
1:40:37 - How to install the Comma Two
1:45:13 - Openpilot is Android & Autopilot is iOS
1:54:28 - Waymo
2:05:41 - Autonomous driving and society
2:07:53 - Moving
2:10:58 - Advice to Startups
2:24:00 - Programming setup
2:27:01 - Ideas that changed my life
2:35:06 - GPT-3
2:38:26 - AGI
2:42:29 - Programming languages that everyone should learn
2:49:02 - How to learn anything
2:51:34 - Book recommendations
2:59:57 - Love
3:01:46 - Psychedelics
3:04:07 - Crazy
 

George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387

Jun 30, 2023

George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
1:39 - Time is an illusion
11:18 - Memes
13:55 - Eliezer Yudkowsky
26:19 - Virtual reality
32:38 - AI friends
40:03 - tiny corp
53:24 - NVIDIA vs AMD
56:21 - tinybox
1:08:30 - Self-driving
1:23:09 - Programming
1:31:06 - AI safety
1:56:03 - Working at Twitter
2:33:46 - Prompt engineering
2:39:42 - Video games
2:55:57 - Andrej Karpathy
3:06:02 - Meaning of life
 
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