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George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132

Lex Fridman · 1.6M views · 2020-10-22 · 3:08:46

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Lex Fridman interviews George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai, in a three-hour conversation. Topics include self-driving, Tesla and Waymo, crypto, GPT-3, immortality and book recommendations.

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Commenters recommend it as an entertaining, wide-ranging interview, and cite it for Hotz's views on end-to-end neural-net driving.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2020–2026

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nomel · 2026-01 · Strong recommendation

There's a few Lex Fridman podcasts with George Hotz, the founder. Highly recommend them: #31 [LINK] #132 [VIDEO] #387 [LINK]

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merryje · 2022-09 · Recommendation

He was on the Lex Fridman podcast twice. He's definitely an interesting guy. I've been following comma.ai for some time now it's really cool seeing how much they've accomplished. August 2019 - [LINK] October 2020 - [VIDEO]

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AlbertoGP · 2021-02 · Recommendation

Just watched today George Hotz’s interview in Lex Fridman’s podcast from last October, 3 hours talking about many interesting things including comma.ai and how it compares with Tesla’s approach. He even mentions HN a couple of times: [VIDEO] [VIDEO]

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