5 ms·
Yes, it's geohot's company but I don't think it lends it anymore credibility. Hacking is very different from building a viable product. Moreover, some of his c
by cbHXBY1D 10y ago
Yes, it's geohot's company but I don't think it lends it anymore credibility. Hacking is very different from building a viable product.
Moreover, some of his comments make me distrust his judgement. Just from a CNN article this year:
> "For awhile, I thought it was going to be incredibly difficult to contribute," he said. In January 2015, he started working as a researcher at Vicarious, a company that's building artificial intelligence algorithms. "I started reading all the papers. I thought, 'This stuff isn't that hard. This isn't ultra sophisticated. This is basic,'" he said. Moreover, "the mistakes people are making are basic."
> "I started to look around at the other players. These people are noobs," he said.
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/04/technology/george-hotz-comma-ai-andreessen-horowitz/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/04/technology/george-hotz-comma...
- spectrum1234 10y agoBecause he's a genius?
- T-A 10y agoBecause just about everybody in this space, except a small number of well known, mostly academic old-timers, is a noob.