Tesla hires prominent A.I. researcher as Autopilot chief Lattner leaves
Publishing timestamp: 2017-06-21 03:08:40
Summary
Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy, a major figure in artificial intelligence, as its new head of AI and Autopilot vision. This move comes after Apple veteran Chris Lattner leaves the company. Karpathy has extensive experience in trendy AI areas such as reinforcement learning and generative adversarial networks. Karpathy will report directly to Elon Musk and work closely with Jim Keller, who replaces Lattner as head of Autopilot hardware and software.
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