Tesla’s head of AI is out
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#61CWN)
Photo By Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images 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."
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