{"id":34948,"date":"2022-10-31T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34948"},"modified":"2022-10-31T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:43:37","slug":"andrej-karpathy-coming-back-tesla-work-optimus-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34948","title":{"rendered":"Andrej Karpathy considers coming back to Tesla to work on Optimus and AGI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrej Karpathy, Tesla\u2019s former head of artificial intelligence, said that he could return to Tesla, especially to work on the Optimus robot and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).<\/p>\n

Karpathy joined Tesla more than five years ago as a neural net and computer vision expert. He joined as Tesla was transitioning from using Mobileye\u2019s technology for driver-assist features to its own system powered by computer vision.<\/p>\n

The engineer is credited for building Tesla\u2019s machine learning and computer vision team. He quickly rose through the ranks and became a big part of Tesla\u2019s Autopilot team and the automaker\u2019s effort to develop a full self-driving system.<\/p>\n

As Tesla expanded its effort from self-driving to broader artificial intelligence, Karpathy was promoted to senior director of AI at Tesla.<\/p>\n

In March, Karpathy announced that\u00a0he was going on sabbatical for four months<\/a>. At the time, we reported that it was worrisome since Tesla executives taking breaks has most often resulted in them not coming back.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, Karpathy announced in July that he was not coming back to Tesla<\/a> to focus on his \u201clong-term passions around technical work in AI, open source and education.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the Lex Fridman podcast this weekend, the engineer elaborated on why he left Tesla. Karpathy said that his role had grown too managerial and consisted of too many meetings rather than actual engineering.<\/p>\n

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