Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

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  • Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
  • 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.
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    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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  • @lexfridman
    @lexfridman  4 роки тому +527

    I really enjoyed this conversation with Jim. Here's the 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

    • @maxlieberman578
      @maxlieberman578 4 роки тому +3

      David Deutsch please! :)

    • @byrnemeister2008
      @byrnemeister2008 4 роки тому +3

      Robert Diggins You sir have failed the Turing test!

    • @byrnemeister2008
      @byrnemeister2008 4 роки тому +4

      Robert Diggins Try rebooting or maybe retrain your NLP model on a bigger and more relevant dataset. Your comments look almost random.

    • @byrnemeister2008
      @byrnemeister2008 4 роки тому +4

      Robert Diggins Hilarious. I still think this account is a students software project. Hence the random selection of topics and the weak excuse of auto correct errors because your typing on a phone. Followed by a big ream of text. This could be a GPT2 response.

    • @isuckatthisgame
      @isuckatthisgame 4 роки тому +3

      Lex, you are the real MVP.
      Ultimate professor.
      Thank you!
      Regards from Europe.

  • @olekkuvppl
    @olekkuvppl 4 роки тому +1200

    Oh my god Silicon Ronin himself.
    Silicon Ronin has no home. He goes from impossible task to next impossible task and builds his miracles.
    Jim is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will... something you know very little about. I once saw him design a FPGA in a bar... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil.
    Then suddenly one day he asked to leave. So I made a deal with him. I gave him an impossible task. A job no one could have pulled off.
    To make AMD competitive again and he succeeded . The architecture choices he made that day laid the foundation of what we are now.

    • @dimomarkov8937
      @dimomarkov8937 4 роки тому +15

    • @HiberNAT
      @HiberNAT 4 роки тому +49

      and thats how i met your mother

    • @bobsagget823
      @bobsagget823 4 роки тому +15

      get a life

    • @d1oftwins
      @d1oftwins 4 роки тому +1

      @@user-io4sr7vg1v Jim was not talking about AMD's Zen architecture.

    • @d1oftwins
      @d1oftwins 4 роки тому +1

      @@user-io4sr7vg1v I was merely informing you about that fact, there was not judgment on my side.

  • @soumyarooproy
    @soumyarooproy 4 роки тому +784

    Jim's super cool and also very respected in the industry. He was a big inspiration for me early on in my career. I was a fairly junior CPU performance engineer at AMD when Jim joined AMD in 2012 (he'd worked at AMD earlier in his career too). I worked on the Zen program, which was being led by Jim. I saw him at my gym one morning, deadlifting 275 lbs (or maybe more) and I went up to him and introduced myself. He was super friendly and continued to be so whenever I'd run into him. We'd exchange our personal bests in lifting. IIRC, he was in his mid 50's then. Given the similarity in our backgrounds (CPU design) and his professional achievements and his amazing discipline, it was a no-brainer for me to aspire to be like him.

    • @stints
      @stints 4 роки тому +41

      I hope you continue to push yourself and do some great things like he has. You can do it.

    • @xeightyx
      @xeightyx 4 роки тому +14

      do you remember what his personal bests were?

    • @sommyaruproy8405
      @sommyaruproy8405 3 роки тому +42

      Wtf i have never met a person with same name as me.

    • @mriegger
      @mriegger 3 роки тому +8

      He looks considerably stronger and healthier than most of Lex's other guests who are often a lot younger. All that gym time definitely paying off.

    • @djmips
      @djmips 3 роки тому +2

      He was at AMD from age 53 to 57.

  • @andrewm6788
    @andrewm6788 3 роки тому +118

    I like how Jim isn't afraid to make Lex question his entire career

  • @micosair
    @micosair 4 роки тому +643

    This is the guy behind the Ryzen series of processors which brought AMD back from the dead.

    • @happynews6219
      @happynews6219 4 роки тому +6

      true that

    • @Jixejo
      @Jixejo 4 роки тому +2

      aha

    • @codykeane6107
      @codykeane6107 4 роки тому +55

      He's worked on the major series from basically all manufacturers. Did the Ryzen series for AMD and athlon, A4/A5 for Apple and x86(64) for Intel. Pretty nuts work load and knowledge this guy has.

    • @Jaker788
      @Jaker788 4 роки тому +33

      @@codykeane6107 The x86-64 was done at AMD and licenced to Intel. At the time Intel was going to drop x86 and go to a VLIW instruction set architecture, called Itanium.

    • @hjembrentkent6181
      @hjembrentkent6181 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah solo job

  • @ShiroKage009
    @ShiroKage009 4 роки тому +341

    One thing that's incredible is that Jim doesn't "err" or "umm" at all, or almost at all. It's crazy how present all the stuff he's taking about is in his mind.

    • @VishalSingh-vq1fc
      @VishalSingh-vq1fc 4 роки тому +26

      1:23:10 That's how you know he's in top .1%

    • @touchdownraiders2009
      @touchdownraiders2009 4 роки тому +10

      ShiroiKage009 Great observation. I never thought about that until you said it. I was just telling my daughter to rid her vocabulary of umm’s and likes.

    • @AnHebrewChild
      @AnHebrewChild 4 роки тому +1

      Damn. Great point.

    • @dualface6104
      @dualface6104 4 роки тому +7

      I'm glad you mention this. This is one of my major pet peeves in life about the current state of way too many people's speech patterns & I wish I knew where it comes from so I could destroy it.
      Had a few people at work that, in THE MOST polite way I knew how, made me finally interrupt them, so that they would speak *just one* coherrent sentence.
      If an individual would only think about what they wanna say before opening their mouth, they would say a lot less, & it'd undoubtedly be more impactful. 😵😎✌

    • @glennquagmire9900
      @glennquagmire9900 4 роки тому +28

      @@dualface6104 if you really have a pet peeve about that, you're the one with issues. who really cares about something so insignificant..? a lot of geniuses had and do have issues with social/verbal aspects. theres a lot of things you do that i'm sure people have pet peeves about too.

  • @KabzieMusic
    @KabzieMusic 4 роки тому +372

    This is a man at the cutting edge of his field.

    • @Mrawesome2346
      @Mrawesome2346 4 роки тому +5

      @@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496 what do you mean by that?

    • @Mrawesome2346
      @Mrawesome2346 4 роки тому

      @@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496 oh ok i agree it is close

    • @greyalien826
      @greyalien826 4 роки тому +12

      @@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496 that makes completely no sense. a 10 year old that sees this today won't surpass him in 5 years or less.. lol. Nor does that have nothing to do with the singularity.

    • @greyalien826
      @greyalien826 4 роки тому +12

      @@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496 Uh.. there's kids that been like that since forever? except they just used books instead. Also it's not hard for kids.. because their brains are more elastic at younger ages. they can absorb and keep information better. 5 languages as a kid isnt impressive. it's just memorization which as i said is even easier as a kid. Also math isn't either, its just a set of rules that you follow and compute. all because a 10 year old has access to the internet doesn't mean hes going to surpass him in 5 years. with intuition? that doesn't even make sense. Uh it will most likely be people from multiple generations. if its that generation that creates the AI machine it is simply just because the information and tech hasn't caught up yet to the previous gen. it has nothing to do with "surpassing" someone.

    • @greyalien826
      @greyalien826 4 роки тому +5

      ​@@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496 This is dumb. People are not just "gaining more intelligence" intelligence has pretty much been the same since however long. But id assume if there is ANY change its just all the stimuli may be having a small effect on pattern recognition, etc. also possibly people eating healthier, that's all. uh, as i said, there is not much of an "intuition advantage" with regards to this.. its machines and programmed algorithms.. what are you even saying. also, your statement could have been said 5 years ago about another 10 year old. yea, and i still don't know why i have to tell you a 10 year old isnt goin to surpass him in 5 years.

  • @hrishabhrajput9504
    @hrishabhrajput9504 4 роки тому +291

    Thanks Lex! I am a big fan of Jim Keller. I somewhere heard that the microprocessor industry is just this guy competing with himself. He is hired by different companies to beat the processor he had built previously at other company.

    • @kahvac
      @kahvac 4 роки тому +13

      Looks like he is uniquely qualified to do so.

    • @Jaker788
      @Jaker788 4 роки тому +36

      Well wherever he works, it's not just him. Ryzen for example, he made the data fabric to get the MCM and then chiplet architecture to mesh together, infinity fabric. The rest of the Ryzen architecture was mostly built by other AMD engineers lead by Jim.
      I think it's fair to say he always adds something significant to everything he works on, but it's not just him.

    • @wl4dymir
      @wl4dymir 4 роки тому +19

      ​@@Jaker788 a bunch of the very best engineers seem to gravitate around him and each other too whenever he moves. Or so I heard.

    • @Alistair
      @Alistair 4 роки тому +10

      @@Jaker788 you're taking the joke a bit overly literally there

    • @djmips
      @djmips 3 роки тому +9

      I think you can take it literally because he as much said that companies want to build a new architecture every 10 years but he wants to do it every 3-5 years. The only way to do that is to switch companies effectively.

  • @raneynickel7443
    @raneynickel7443 4 роки тому +189

    "Physics itself has been a shitshow for thousands of years." Brilliant!

    • @bry2k
      @bry2k 4 роки тому +27

      @@okthatsnice He meant there's a lot of questions yet to be answered and a lot of disagreement about how to eventually get to those answers, if the answers even exist.

    • @vimalsheoran8040
      @vimalsheoran8040 3 роки тому +1

      @@bry2k Yep true.

    • @GrimSleepy
      @GrimSleepy 3 роки тому +2

      I would agree with hundreds, but the civilizations that seemed to have understanding of physics thousands of years ago seemed to take their knowledge and understanding with them when their empires collapsed.

    • @8kigana
      @8kigana 3 роки тому +3

      @@GrimSleepy oh my Lord you are 100% correct, they took that and certain medicinal cures with them too. Maybe even a sense of spirituality as well. I think of the Mayans ability to track time with such precisions, the Egyptians building pyramids with remarkable engineering and precision. It's like there were aliens we don't know about that somehow got them by (or lived among them).

    • @AE0N777
      @AE0N777 3 роки тому +1

      @@8kigana The Gobleki Teppe is another anomaly. A 12 000 year old hunter gatherer society should not have been able to produce the biggest monolithic site in history. Even more incredibly, they did not live there. Instead they used the site for a religious pilgrimage.

  • @psychotogether5114
    @psychotogether5114 4 роки тому +222

    These Lexures are nothing short of amazing. Don’t change anything. Your voice is yours.

    • @sethbracken
      @sethbracken 4 роки тому +9

      Sam Stone nice coinage lol

  • @danesovic7585
    @danesovic7585 4 роки тому +108

    1:06:13
    Lex: "Everything you said is correct."
    Jim: "Yay"

  • @brendank
    @brendank 4 роки тому +249

    Would love to see you talk with Linus Torvalds

  • @temprd
    @temprd 4 роки тому +170

    Could watch this one on a loop indefinitely. So many good tidbits in here.

  • @deesmods6696
    @deesmods6696 4 роки тому +94

    Jim's work has changed so many peoples lives, including mine.

  • @hoolerboris
    @hoolerboris 4 роки тому +108

    New video is out. I've never heard of the guest. His field is microprocessors, which I've never thought of as something interesting.
    Turns out to be one of the wisest humans I've listened to and possibly the best hour and a half of listening experience I've had in my life. Jim is incredibly insightful about technology, science, and just the human condition in general. Thanks Lex for making stuff like this possible.

    • @phillip_iv_planetking6354
      @phillip_iv_planetking6354 Рік тому +6

      He's also Jordan Peterson's brother in law.

    • @sherrythomas8149
      @sherrythomas8149 Рік тому +1

      Your comment is so valuable. You're describing exactly what I think about the subject and now I will actually listen and give it a try.

    • @nachonachoman
      @nachonachoman 11 місяців тому

      I would argue that microprocessor architect requires more engineering excellence than rocket science. And Jim Keller has been one of the best for a long time. A treat to hear him unfiltered

  • @PrinceCharming2218
    @PrinceCharming2218 4 роки тому +145

    Jim Keller reminds me of an older Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley.

  • @YinnonHaviv
    @YinnonHaviv 4 роки тому +178

    IMO, this is definitely one of the best interviews by Lex. I found Jim Keller to be a version of Elon Musk with improved communication skills and more grounded/effective approach to projects. Thank you Jim for the insights and Lex for facilitating the interview, it was truly fascinating.

    • @effexon
      @effexon 3 роки тому +4

      I still find it... unimaginable even with his communication skills to work with marketing... I dont know are they smart or not in tech, IT, but it sure is challenge.

    • @nachonachoman
      @nachonachoman 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@kevinc-nj5hnit's actually a valid comparison. They both set the architecture for their products. Architecture is a higher level of design. And Elon is really good at it. But IC architecture, IMHO, is probably the hardest product to do it on. Keller is a legend

    • @deanfowles3707
      @deanfowles3707 8 місяців тому

      Oh shut up

  • @SomeTechGuy666
    @SomeTechGuy666 4 роки тому +245

    "I've read a couple books a week for 50 years." WOW. 1:24:00

    • @fatpen9731
      @fatpen9731 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah, wow

    • @kyleganse4978
      @kyleganse4978 4 роки тому +17

      It shows what’s important to him!

    • @GaminHasard
      @GaminHasard 4 роки тому +35

      Yeah just paused right there and rewinded it. Did I get that right? Books are lives condensed in 200 pages. Learning tool for the human collective.

    • @SamuelHauptmannvanDam
      @SamuelHauptmannvanDam 4 роки тому +8

      There is only 2 others, I know do the same. Bill Gates and Marc Andreessen.

    • @jacobuserasmus
      @jacobuserasmus 4 роки тому +1

      I only started reading a few books a week a couple of years ago. I can just imagine what he must have learned.

  • @mikexu9397
    @mikexu9397 4 роки тому +89

    I was shocked by the accuracy of the prediction of branching as well. I learned it when taking a computer architecture class that's required by my CS major. The explanation that I came up with is this: Intuitively when we think of a branch instruction, we think of it as an if-else structure in C. Then, the accuracy should be around 50%. Achieving 85% without doing anything fancy doesn't make any sense. However, the blind-spot is the loop structure. For example, when using a for loop in C, the complier translates the loop into a branch structure where if the condition is true, it branches back to the top of the loop; if it's not true, then it branches out of the loop. Imagining having a for loop that loops 50 times. Predicting that the branch will jump back to the loop will have an accuracy of 49/50 = 98%. Just imagine how many loops a normal program has. Having an 85% accuracy doesn't sound impossible now.
    Also, that's why I subjective believe that trying to prefect the prediction algorithm is the wrong way to go. The initial high accuracy is not merit. It's just a nice feature due to programs having many loops. There's no reason to think that we are able to prefect the prediction.
    Hope this helps.

    • @anjankatta1864
      @anjankatta1864 4 роки тому +3

      This is a helpful explanation thank you!

    • @a.d.1882
      @a.d.1882 4 роки тому +23

      Beside loops, there are also all the error checks conditionals which are false most of the time. There are even compiler macros to advise the compiler in that case (so that it can put the condition body in a far away memory area, this way more of the real code to be executed get cached).
      Honestly there’s really nothing surprising in this at all of that for people doing low-level / OS / compiler / game programming for a living. Only people who are stuck in their high-level programming ivory towers finds such information “surprising”.

    • @mikexu9397
      @mikexu9397 4 роки тому +3

      @@a.d.1882 Cool! Thanks!

    • @BladeAurora
      @BladeAurora 4 роки тому +6

      @@a.d.1882 yeah idk how so many people get stuck in their ivory towers. do they just forget everything they learn in computer architecture class?

    • @ethiesm1
      @ethiesm1 4 роки тому

      CRAZY🤯No Clue- Thank you

  • @AlanW
    @AlanW 4 роки тому +56

    "let me ask Jim Keller: 'what is conciousness?'" - 🤣

  • @jato72
    @jato72 4 роки тому +85

    Best podcast I have heard in a while. A very refreshing guest!

  • @jgrutzik
    @jgrutzik 4 роки тому +194

    Hey Lex - Please ask each guest to provide a list of their top ten favorite books and add these lists to your show notes. Thanks for all you do.

    • @woocashky
      @woocashky 4 роки тому +21

      Joe Grutzik -> ten is a bit excessive - I read a lot but can't come up with 5 on top of my head ;P (maybe just me tho...) - all 5 titles would be some paniced bs that happened to rattle in my head at the time. And ten...?
      Ferris got workaround for this: "what is the one book that you've gifted the most" ... Or something like that. Much more specific imo...

    • @AnHebrewChild
      @AnHebrewChild 4 роки тому +10

      Joe G- I'm with the other commenter Lucas: I'd say 3 books would be good, 4-5 tops. But I do LIKE the idea.

    • @greensleeves6005
      @greensleeves6005 4 роки тому

      Bumppppppp

    • @Felicidade101
      @Felicidade101 4 роки тому +5

      book nerds. Its in the execution you will find wisdom!

    • @AnHebrewChild
      @AnHebrewChild 4 роки тому

      gekkeredon We've got to not merely hear good principles & practices but actually _execute_ on them. TRUE. Thing is, reading quality books is one of the best ways to acquire these principles. (As Keller explains in the vid). Hence, we book nerds' request for book recommendations. cheers

  • @jordandaniel714
    @jordandaniel714 Рік тому +51

    This is like watching an adult teaching a 6 year old new things

  • @samerm8657
    @samerm8657 3 роки тому +11

    What an incredible cocktail of a personality! Humble and down to earth, while seamlessly savage and large as a star at the same time.

  • @CharlesVanNoland
    @CharlesVanNoland 4 роки тому +26

    As far as the recipe analogy is concerned, I've always thought about it like this: some people know a lot of recipes and are great at executing them while much fewer people know how to actually come up with recipes because they have an intimate grasp on and awareness of the problem space and all of its dimensionality.

    • @lolurobese
      @lolurobese 3 роки тому

      Yes, there’s absolutely recognition deserved for the recipe makers.
      But how about the expert craftsmen/chefs who trained for thousands of hours that execute the recipe at a much higher level than the average one?
      Both are equally impressive

  • @DaveWard-xc7vd
    @DaveWard-xc7vd 4 роки тому +90

    1:29:40
    "The rest of the population has been dealing with that since they were born".
    PRO FREAKING FOUND!

    • @npgatech7
      @npgatech7 4 роки тому

      I didn't understand that bit, can you explain?

    • @DaveWard-xc7vd
      @DaveWard-xc7vd 4 роки тому +4

      @@npgatech7
      He was forcasting the future relationship between super intelligent machines and humans, while reflecting on the current relationship between the 98% of people with average or below average intelligence and that 2% of people with genius IQs.
      Cars were invented by geniuses to be driven by fools. So it is with most things. In the future all of mankind will be the fool.

    • @MindlessSuccess
      @MindlessSuccess 4 роки тому +4

      Well most people don't deal with it because they ignore the facts and base their decisions on emotions. My observation is that the dumber the person, the less aware they are of the existence of people more intelligent than them. Perhaps, a super intelligent AI will be something that we will never even become aware of.

    • @DaveWard-xc7vd
      @DaveWard-xc7vd 4 роки тому +4

      @@MindlessSuccess
      I am blessed/cursed with an exceptionally high IQ and for the most part people dont seem to notice because I lean towards being introverted and I tend to observe more than judge. Then there have been situations where I stepped out of character to save the day and people I thought my friends have reacted badly. It was as though their whole perception of me had just been shattered. I dont pretend to be an idiot. I just dont try to solve every problem but they react as if lied to them
      Strange.

    • @DaveWard-xc7vd
      @DaveWard-xc7vd 4 роки тому

      @@MindlessSuccess
      I agree with you on AI. It is most likely among us and we have no idea.
      But I suspect.

  • @hisyamudin
    @hisyamudin 4 роки тому +28

    If Warner Bro reading this, please hire Jim Keller as the next iterations of The Matrix Engineer in The Matrix 4

  • @keybraker
    @keybraker 4 роки тому +12

    Jim is an absolute legend. Cool, thoughtful, smart and humble.
    I need more Keller in my life.

  • @brandonb87
    @brandonb87 4 роки тому +15

    i've listened to many of these while at work in headphones, but this one in particular happened to resonate with me in a special way... thanks for being awesome

  • @Buel426
    @Buel426 4 роки тому +21

    "when someone cuts you off in traffic your brain has theories about why they did it" I'm dying lmao

    • @maymayman0
      @maymayman0 18 днів тому +1

      I wish. Mine only has 1 theory and its not very generous

  • @bonky10
    @bonky10 17 днів тому

    This was seriously one of the most interesting interviews i've seen and it's not just his work but the way he thinks. I hope he's written a book. i can't explain how, but it's like he is thinking in a scale of infinite and acknowledges that humanity in a way is going in its own ever sorta S-curve. What a thinker.

  • @pokeshark
    @pokeshark 4 роки тому +20

    01:32:26 "my nephew called me a jaded optimist" hahaha

  • @housecat93
    @housecat93 4 роки тому +19

    This is the one. THIS is the interview I was waiting for.

  • @MrSushantsingh
    @MrSushantsingh 4 роки тому +20

    Jim taking Lex’s case every few minutes 🤣 Jim was trying to save a then sinking AMD when I was there back in 2012-13 time frame, thereafter life forced me towards Deep Learning😊

  • @spacekidastro
    @spacekidastro 4 роки тому +11

    This guy's really well spoken on things and he stands on what he says, great interview👌🏽

  • @seanfitzgerald4207
    @seanfitzgerald4207 4 роки тому +218

    1:23: "I imagine 99% of your thought process is protecting your self-conception, and 98% of that is wrong."

    • @antoinepageau8336
      @antoinepageau8336 4 роки тому +45

      I actually laughed out loud when he said that. I could’ve watched five hours of Jim Keller interviews.

    • @Arcticwhir
      @Arcticwhir 4 роки тому +18

      1:23:10 correction*

    • @johnboykin3128
      @johnboykin3128 4 роки тому +10

      Ha. He described liberalism

    • @johnalley8397
      @johnalley8397 4 роки тому +2

      @@antoinepageau8336 Agree. Outstanding mind.

    • @Wardoon
      @Wardoon 4 роки тому +10

      ".....I don't know if I got the math right. It might be 99.9%."

  • @DonBrowningRacing
    @DonBrowningRacing 4 роки тому +11

    Pure pleasure watching Lex finally bend to some of Jim's answers when Lex would suddenly realize Jim's answer was beyond Lex's preconceived answer. Beautiful.

    • @ZaDowlan
      @ZaDowlan 4 роки тому +4

      Yea. I feel like this while interview went above Lex's head

  • @piyh3962
    @piyh3962 4 роки тому +31

    This is such an approachable talk on the most complex things humans manufacture. Thanks Lex.

  • @rubenpinamonti7125
    @rubenpinamonti7125 4 роки тому +11

    I've watched this whole interview 3 times already; this man has me mesmerized.
    What truly wondrous intellect and wisdom.

    • @RolanElizabeth
      @RolanElizabeth Місяць тому

      Ikr,I think someone needs to take every 5 mins he talked about and do a 1 hour video explaining what he means practically and maybe he might be there to help too but you know, he's not a nobody he's a part of existence that's done something important so probably busy

  • @MrBizaaro
    @MrBizaaro Рік тому +7

    This guy has found inner peace. Awesome guest. Awesome podcast

  • @christianpattison8238
    @christianpattison8238 4 роки тому +16

    Soo looking forward to the drive to work so I can listen to this on your podcast awesome work

  • @Jman2008xxl
    @Jman2008xxl 4 роки тому +8

    This is F'n Oustanding! I wish I could have watched/listened to this podcast 10 years ago! 👏👍

  • @SpenserFL
    @SpenserFL 4 роки тому +2

    Only just past halfway through and this is my favourite podcast ever - thank you Lex. So inspiring and hopeful.

  • @edh615
    @edh615 4 роки тому

    Fantastic interview, can't get enough of him, any blogs\books\interviews with similar content? It's difficult to find such valuable compressed information on these topics.

  • @richardgordon7123
    @richardgordon7123 4 роки тому +11

    Lex, as a former computer engineer, this has to be one of my favorite interviews. Jim Keller is an uber engineer and someone of enormous knowledge, experience, craftsmanship, and an earned humility from the school of hard knocks. What a great podcast. Congrats.

  • @pauliedibbs9028
    @pauliedibbs9028 4 роки тому +7

    Good call on the ads, Lex! You are absolutely right about maintaining the flow, and I can say for at least myself that it is appreciated.

  • @DaedalusCreative
    @DaedalusCreative 3 роки тому

    How is it that I understand less than 5% of this conversation and still find it so beautiful?

  • @137vuk
    @137vuk 4 роки тому +1

    Such an amazing person to talk to.. I hope you will have some more interviews with Jim.
    Thank you for this one.

  • @basicallyeveryone
    @basicallyeveryone 4 роки тому +13

    I wish I had a dad like him to talk about stuff like this.

  • @garyswift9347
    @garyswift9347 4 роки тому +25

    Hi Lex, you're GREAT. I'd love to see you talk to some people about the BIG DATA problems with modern astronomy. This conversation with Jim Keller made me think alot about this topic. I wish you had asked him a few things about it. Thanks for doing what you do. Keep it going for all of us who love to learn.

  • @PRASAD54321prasad
    @PRASAD54321prasad 4 роки тому +1

    It's super fun listening to him. I was wishing this particular conversation to be as long as it can get, while listening to him.

  • @luclessard5400
    @luclessard5400 3 роки тому

    A meeting of two great minds. What a delight. I just can have enough of this. Thank you Lex.

  • @gnollio
    @gnollio 4 роки тому +5

    Great interview. The difference in perspective (academic vs engineer) makes the conversation fascinating.

  • @osirisgolad
    @osirisgolad 4 роки тому +7

    Hello Lex, I just listened to the JRE episode with you on it and then decided to come to your channel to just have a look, not necessarily expecting too much crossover between my interests and the subject matter of your channel. The first thing I see is Jim Keller, the person at the top of my list of people who I have been wanting to hear speak outside of their official capacity for at least a decade now. I can't wait to listen to this and discover who else you've had on your show.

    • @valoriel4464
      @valoriel4464 4 роки тому +1

      JRE bump got me here too. Subscribed, then podcast binge ensued. Great content

  • @ST-fk3jz
    @ST-fk3jz 4 роки тому

    I think this is the best episode you've made. Industry professionals are so grounded and so full of useful information

  • @IproCoGo
    @IproCoGo 4 роки тому +2

    It is so enjoyable to learn how creators think. I’ll spend another hour, thirty listening to this podcast again. Thank you!

  • @Gi-Home
    @Gi-Home 4 роки тому +3

    You keep hitting the ball out of the park, great interview! Great guest and as always great interaction between the host and the guest. Thank you.

  • @kylegushue
    @kylegushue 4 роки тому +8

    Wow. This was a tremendous episode. My new favorite guest!!

  • @kingwoodbudo
    @kingwoodbudo 3 роки тому

    I had not heard of first principles until this video. Now I'm looking forward to learning more about it and how to apply it to whatever I do. Thanks, Lex for having so many great people come on your show. I've learned so much from so many of them.

  • @kirdiekirdie
    @kirdiekirdie 4 роки тому +1

    This was the first of your interviews I've listened to and it was amazing, I will definitely listen to more!

  • @caractacustube
    @caractacustube 4 роки тому +3

    Gems. Thank you Jim Keller, and Lex for making this happen.

  • @nickamodio721
    @nickamodio721 4 роки тому +30

    What a fantastic conversation that was! It boggles my mind that people like Jim Keller exist; people who are able to absorb thousands of deeply abstract technical concepts and then as a team use that collective knowledge and intuition to create new, effectively magic objects such as microprocessors. It must take quite a special group of minds to accomplish that. I wish that I was smart enough to do something like that, but in the end I'm just glad we all get to come along for the ride and benefit from their brilliance. I can't wait to see what the next 20 years of exponential growth will do to society. I'm ready for a whole lot of change.

    • @RolanElizabeth
      @RolanElizabeth Місяць тому

      He mentioned something about reading a couple of books every week for 50 years and he's in a practical field that applies what you read,so maybe you can do something similar

  • @notokek
    @notokek 11 днів тому

    When I was in high school my has been split in two groups for informatics lesson, one was making power point presentations, the other has been taught to code in c++
    It was so hard for me, I was an A student and learnt every new concept effortlessly but on informatics lessons I felt so stupid and slow. Yet this kind of challenge excited me more than anything
    This video, especially Computer abstraction layers and parallelism makes me feel the same way. I don't understand it but I really want to.
    Thank you Lex and Jim, this is so amazing

  • @remixisthis
    @remixisthis Рік тому +1

    Love the way he thinks and talks. No bs, straight to the point, and able to apply first principles and analogies immediately. Always locked in sharp thought. Makes the conversation better by challenging Lex with no ego

  • @litolito7314
    @litolito7314 4 роки тому +11

    this is one of your most interesting interviews ever! AWESOME

  • @daikennett
    @daikennett 4 роки тому +40

    "You can run a computer program 100 times, and it would be executed differently every time" - This is amazing! I didnt realise that there was such fuzzy execution going on.

    • @a.d.1882
      @a.d.1882 4 роки тому +7

      Take a course in computer architecture, it’s not that surprising.

    • @thomasseptimius
      @thomasseptimius 4 роки тому +38

      @@a.d.1882 Take a course in politeness. No reason to be arrogant.

    • @timdoonan5898
      @timdoonan5898 4 роки тому +19

      @@thomasseptimius take a course in not attributing emotion to text. You have very little information to go off of and it's possible he wasn't intentionally being rude

    • @keithevans6450
      @keithevans6450 4 роки тому +3

      It would have been interesting to ask him about all of the recent exploits related to speculative execution.

    • @robertpirsig5011
      @robertpirsig5011 4 роки тому +3

      @@timdoonan5898 Take a course in minding your goddam business

  • @DamianReloaded
    @DamianReloaded 4 роки тому +1

    Another great interview! I need to thank this man for having being part of the engineering of my beloved hobby and profession! Thanks for the passion and the hard work Jim Keller!

  • @ZionVisionEWF
    @ZionVisionEWF 4 роки тому +1

    I changed my mind on pursuing Architectural Engineering to stufy Software Engineering & Computer Science. This dude looks like a construction site foreman, but just showed how it looks to be a regular guy who's actually a tech pioneering nerd. Sick.

  • @anjishnu8643
    @anjishnu8643 4 роки тому +5

    Lex brought up this interview during his interaction with Scott Aaronson. Came here to have a look and god was this otherworldly. What an incredible person.

  • @GamingBlake2002
    @GamingBlake2002 4 роки тому +29

    Never knew about this guy.. great episode!

  • @kadenabet
    @kadenabet 4 роки тому +1

    My favorite interview of Friedman's yet. So direct, so simple.

  • @klaymoon1
    @klaymoon1 Місяць тому +1

    I haven't seen this much of wisdom at one go like this. My deep respect to you, Jim! Only thing I have to disagree is that your team will be much smarter and much bigger. Because soon most members of your team will be self-conscious AI's.

  • @tiberiumihairezus417
    @tiberiumihairezus417 4 роки тому +4

    A great review of Electronic Calculators university course, and beyond. Great, great video. Thank you so much for the content you are providing us.

  • @Arcticwhir
    @Arcticwhir 4 роки тому +40

    It seemed like Lex at times was prideful which was clashing with Jim's responses and opinions. Maybe im misrepresenting it. I also think it was very eye opening to find out that moor's law is much more complex than people realize, its about 1000's of innovations every year, not simply the shrinkage of transistors (altough that requires 1000's innovations) It was also interesting to hear that they re-write almost everything every 3-5 years.

    • @marcusklaas4088
      @marcusklaas4088 4 роки тому +9

      You're definitely not the only one seeing prideful behavior in Lex. I think he should just have explored Jim's (amazing!) insights instead of trying to challenge them and falling on his face.

    • @nofurtherwest3474
      @nofurtherwest3474 4 роки тому +5

      @@marcusklaas4088 agreed. He's the interviewer. He should have guided the convo but not made it about what he thinks.

    • @TheAIEpiphany
      @TheAIEpiphany 4 роки тому +1

      Because Jim was being overly confident at times thinking he understands every part of autonomous driving problematic while Lex is actually working in that specific area.

    • @ChrisBBozeman
      @ChrisBBozeman 4 роки тому +1

      Maybe Lex is looking at it in the wrong way. Like Jim said, if you're looking at it from a narrative view, it becomes a very complex problem. If you as a human see a child in the road, a dozen thoughts run through your head... "I have to slow down / stop." "If I hit that kid, I could go to jail forever." "I don't want to hurt a little child." , etc. Maybe its better to design a system that just says, "Obstruction ahead," and doesn't care what the obstruction is, just that its avoided.

    • @jagjitsingh6334
      @jagjitsingh6334 2 роки тому

      People are paying attention to Lex as if he is someone worth remotely paying attention. Dude is larping as an AI researcher and tries to play an antagonist to quite literally a pioneer in the field of Computer Science just for... looking worth something?
      When you take an insecure, weird, untalented guy and make people worship him for his mental aptitude and physical toughness, you give birth to delusional (un)intellectuals like Lex.

  • @legendhasit2568
    @legendhasit2568 2 роки тому

    Thank you for organising this Lex. I’ve listened to this many times now and it has changed my thought processes. I listened to this on day one of release and am listening again now.
    Thank you, keep up the great work 👍

  • @0ne87
    @0ne87 4 роки тому +2

    I came for the technical discussion but I really enjoyed his views on the philosophical topics and others not directly related to the technical. I really hope to see more interviews of Jim on various topics he seems incredibly knowledgable. Great talk.

  • @mradminus
    @mradminus 4 роки тому +3

    How did you manage to get Mr Keller on the show, one of my biggest heroes all time! Keep up the great work Fridman!!

  • @marzx13
    @marzx13 4 роки тому +7

    Great Podcast, one of my favorite episodes. Love the analogy between chip architecture and team and corporate structures. So cool to have the opportunity to see Jim explain his work at this level.

  • @chris_1337
    @chris_1337 4 роки тому +2

    Wow, Jim is great. This is one of the best episodes yet, Lex.

  • @georgemccaffery3260
    @georgemccaffery3260 4 роки тому +1

    Very good episode, Lex. I hope Jim comes back and does another show. I get the feeling there's more you two could covered.

  • @oscwolf1
    @oscwolf1 4 роки тому +4

    This has been the best conversation that I have had the pleasure of listening to.

    • @RolanElizabeth
      @RolanElizabeth Місяць тому +1

      Yeah he's practical, he's simple yet knows a vast knowledge about computer which weirdly ties to other part of human life

  • @utubeubi
    @utubeubi 4 роки тому +4

    As a software guy, I’m just stunned. Thank you Lex

  • @mkjyt1
    @mkjyt1 3 роки тому +2

    I am glad i found Jim Keller!

  • @huguesviens
    @huguesviens 4 роки тому +2

    Amazing interview ! It s been a long time that I was so mesmerized by the such a deep understanding of one craft, and what a hell of a craft. Thanks a lot for that one.

  • @davidwallace1594
    @davidwallace1594 4 роки тому +3

    Lex, Jim Keller gave you a run for your money! One of your best interviews!

  • @SomeTechGuy666
    @SomeTechGuy666 4 роки тому +27

    Jim Keller is a fascinating guy. He is the Dave Grohl of high tech.

  • @pwells2389
    @pwells2389 3 роки тому

    Lex, this session was one of the most fun I've watched. You're body language and expression at 1:28:18 pretty much sums it all up. Just wonderful. Thank you.

  • @boggers
    @boggers 4 роки тому +3

    This may be the best interview I have ever seen.

  • @DagnirGlaurunga
    @DagnirGlaurunga 4 роки тому +3

    Wow, that one was so much fun, great work!

  • @raifsevrence
    @raifsevrence 4 роки тому +1

    This is hands down the best podcast I have listened to in a long time. Absolutely fantastic. Another wonderful podcast which I learned about from JRE.

  • @davemilke3110
    @davemilke3110 4 роки тому +2

    This subject is so important to me that I put off listening to this podcast until I knew I had uninterrupted time to enjoy it - I was not disappointed - so good, thanks.

  • @dimomarkov8937
    @dimomarkov8937 4 роки тому +15

    That is officially my favorite video!

  • @Oblivic
    @Oblivic 4 роки тому +7

    Lex you’re a treasure. And Jim thanks for one of the best talks I’ve heard on this channel so far.

  • @cuulcars
    @cuulcars Рік тому +1

    That exchange about search was beautiful

  • @PartyRockAdviser
    @PartyRockAdviser 3 роки тому +1

    Awesome interview. The constant friendly dueling between these two was hilarious. One of my favorites. :)

  • @suredegen
    @suredegen 4 роки тому +4

    Great episode Lex!

  • @arizablozki9370
    @arizablozki9370 4 роки тому +32

    Lex,
    Because of your podcast I just went back to school for my masters in CS. Thank you !!!!I I would love to intern at your new startup!
    Ari

    • @Jacob-sb3su
      @Jacob-sb3su 4 роки тому +2

      @@Johnwilliams-th9hq what a weird place to make a dig at ari shaffir lmao.

    • @kmolnardaniel
      @kmolnardaniel 4 роки тому

      John williams Lex Fridman on molly podcast with Bert confirmed

  • @mpetry912
    @mpetry912 2 роки тому

    golly. this is one of those discussions that has so much in it that I had to repeat several sections to get a full understanding. thank you Lex, well worth the time.

  • @bitwise01
    @bitwise01 4 роки тому +1

    @Lex Fridman thanks for taking the time to produce these podcasts, it's much appreciated. very interesting & informative!

  • @JasonSiemens
    @JasonSiemens 4 роки тому +4

    Great interview, you are the future of journalism -- people that are experts in both interviewing as well as the subject matter. Jim is a legend!