{"id":13932,"date":"2022-01-26T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=13932"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:18:10","slug":"tesla-ai-director-bot-on-track-powerful-ai-development-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=13932","title":{"rendered":"Tesla AI Director: &#8216;I believe &#8216;Tesla Bot&#8217; is on track to become the most powerful AI development platform&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, says that he believes \u2018Tesla Bot\u2019 is \u201con track to become the most powerful AI development platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-222728\"\/><ins class=\"adsbygoogle author_ad\" data-ad-host=\"ca-host-pub-5506057612223327\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4655152367470280\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"\/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Since Tesla AI Day last year, CEO Elon Musk has been slowly pushing the idea that Tesla is becoming more of an AI\/robotics company.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has been boasting about the company\u2019s AI talent, led by Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, and believes that the company is in the best position to make advancements in AI due to the real-world applications in its vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the CEO even suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/01\/19\/elon-musk-tesla-artificial-general-intelligence-decentralize-tesla-bot-avoid-terminator-scenario\/\">Tesla could play a role in making Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) a reality<\/a> through the \u2018Tesla Bot\u2019 project, a humanoid robot.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been seen more as a tool to attract AI and robotic talent to the company, and surely Tesla has been in a hiring mode for AI talent since the event and the big reveal of the plans for a robot.<\/p>\n<p>On his LinkedIn page this week, Karpathy shared a new batches of job listings:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gTnH57bj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deep Learning Engineer \/ Scientist<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gXdh2iXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Software Engineer, Deep Learning Infrastructure<\/a><br \/>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gPFydxja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Software Engineer, Deep Learning<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gFQtN93p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Software Engineer, Evaluation<\/a><br \/>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gnGSFzcR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Backend Engineer, AI Tooling<\/a><br \/>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gPNZxMxU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frontend Engineer, AI Tooling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AI expert elaborated on the positions:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI am hiring Deep Learning Engineers for the Tesla AI team. Strong software engineering is the primary requirement. Except for the scientist role, deep learning interest or knowledge is only a bonus (we will teach you). For the deep learning scientist role any domain outside of computer vision (e.g. speech, NLP, etc.) works great too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Karpathy suggested that applicants watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2021\/08\/19\/watch-tesla-ai-day-livestream-important-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tesla AI Day presentation<\/a> to get an idea of what Tesla is trying to accomplish with AI.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla Bot project was unveiled at the end of the presentation as sort of a \u201cone more thing\u201d moment by Musk, and the rest of the presenters, including Karpathy, didn\u2019t comment much on it.<\/p>\n<p>In this new post to seek applications from deep learning experts, Karpathy did mention that he believes Tesla Bot is \u201con track to become the most powerful AI development platform\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThere is no other organization that vertically integrates, develops, and deploys cutting-edge robotics AI at this scale. Our goal is to improve the safety and comfort of driving along the way to automating transportation with Full Self-Driving. We are also applying everything we\u2019ve learned to our humanoid robot \u201cTesla Bot\u201d, which I believe is on track to become the most powerful AI development platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The comment is in line with Musk\u2019s recent announcement that Tesla Bot \u201ctesting against the real world\u201d will help advance AI technology.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcOIZzJgLCyMPILY7-1Vsdg?sub_confirmation=1\">Subscribe to Electrek on YouTube for exclusive videos<\/a> and subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrek.co\/guides\/electrek-podcast\">podcast<\/a>.<!-- youtube embed --><\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Recent Videos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SR4IkKYqfgo?playlist=iRxGeLfp9C0,C_ZUztwt8_M,fNr9i9QPYMQ,E7DgJ6FqFmo,t0a-IkgGMM8,WtGMUAHZ0tw,cn3amWA8KxE,y5fNJvEzzNk,c7Gs7REhctg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, says that he believes \u2018Tesla Bot\u2019 is \u201con track to become the most powerful AI development platform.\u201d Since Tesla AI Day last year, CEO Elon Musk has been slowly pushing the idea that Tesla is becoming more of an AI\/robotics company. 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