George Hotz Quotes

Sam Altman won't tell you that GPT-4 has 220 billion parameters and is a 16 weight mixture-model with 8 sets of weights.

For the longest time at Comma I asked "Why did start a company? Why did I do this?" But, you know, what else was I going to do?

Intelligence is so dangerous; be it human intelligence or machine intelligence. Intelligence is dangerous.

[About AI:] I am scared of these things too. Everyone should be scared of these things. These things are scary. But now you ask about the two possible futures. One where a small "trusted" centralized group of people has them, and the other where everyone has them. And I am much less scared of the second future than the first.

If there's two great evils in the world, it's centralization and complexity.

The incentive for politicians to move up in the political structure is to add laws.

When someone makes [a large language model] that is capable of citing its sources, it will kill Google. [...] Some startup is going to figure it out. I think, if you ask me, [...] I think by the end of the decade Google won't be the number one web page anymore.

[About AI:] You could make an argument that nobody should have these things, and I would defend that argument, [...] and I would respect someone philosophically with that position. Just like i would respect someone philosophically with the position that nobody should have guns. But I will not respect philosophically "Only the trusted authorities should have access to this." Who are the trusted authorities? You know what? I'm not worried about alignment between an AI company and their machines; I'm worried about alignment between me and the AI company.

I took a political approach at Comma too that I think is pretty interesting. I think Elon [Musk] takes the same political approach. You know, Google had no politics, and what ended up happening is the absolute worst kind of politics took over.

[If he has hope for cryptocurrencies:] Sure! I have hope for the ideas. I really do. I wand the US dollar to collapse. I do.

I am so much not worried about the machine independently doing harm. That is what some of these AI safety people seem to think. They somehow seem to think that the machine independently is going to rebel against its creator. [...] This is sci-fi B-movie garbage. [...] If the thing writes viruses, it's because the human told it to write viruses.

The fundamental limitation of [computer] cloud is who owns the off-switch.

I'm hoping that games can get out of this whole mobile gaming dopamine pump thing [...] and create worlds.

It struck me one day how just silly atheism is. Of course we were created by God. It's the most obvious thing.

My central thesis about the world is there are things that centralize power and they're bad, and there are things that decentralize power and they're good. Everything I can do to help decentralice power I'd like to do.