[AutonomousVehicles] Tesla AI and Autopilot Chief Leaves Company

[Cornelius Butler]

Hi Everyone,
One of the key developers of Tesla Autopilot has now left the company.
Article link and text is below.

Article Link:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/13/23211358/tesla-head-of-ai-andrej-karpathy

Article Text:

Tesla’s head of AI is out

Andrej Karpathy has left the company

By Jay Peters at jaypeters  Jul 13, 2022, 7:13pm EDT  4 comments

Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s head of AI and a key leader in the development of
Autopilot, its driver assist feature which requires supervision by a human,
announced on Twitter Wednesday that he’s leaving the company.

“It’s been a great pleasure to help Tesla towards its goals over the last 5
years and a difficult decision to part ways,” Karpathy wrote. “In that
time, Autopilot graduated from lane keeping to city streets and I look
forward to seeing the exceptionally strong Autopilot team continue that
momentum.” In a follow-up tweet, Karpathy said he has “no concrete plans
for what’s next” but wants to revisit “my long-term passions around
technical work in AI, open source and education.”

The departure seems to be amicable, as CEO Elon Musk replied kindly to
Karpathy on Twitter. In March, Karpathy said that he was on a sabbatical to
“rest & travel,” but had said he planned to come back to Tesla this month,
according to Bloomberg.


Karpathy joined Tesla in 2017, taking over the top AI job after former
Apple executive Chris Lattner’s six-month stint in the post. As AI chief,
Karpathy has overseen the growth and development of Tesla’s controversial
Autopilot driver assist software, though the software is currently under
investigation from the federal government after Teslas using Autopilot
crashed into parked emergency vehicles.

Karpathy’s departure follows layoffs of nearly 200 Tesla employees focused
on Autopilot.

Apple announced a fully redesigned MacBook Air with an M2 processor. The
display is now larger at 13.6 inches and gets closer to the edge of the lid
because the new 1080p camera has been hidden in a notch. It features two
thunderbolt ports, a headphone jack, and a MagSafe charging port. The M2
MacBook Air will be available in July 2022, starting at $1,199.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/autonomousvehicles_nfbnet.org/attachments/20220714/e5bd785c/attachment.html>