Andrej Karpathy

Artificial Intelligence: Setback For Tesla’s Autopilot Team As AI Head Andrej Karpathy Quits

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A key piece in Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) Autopilot and Full Self Driving development, Andrej Karpathy, who was senior director in charge of AI and computer vision at the company, has resigned after a four-month sabbatical. The ostensible reason for the move: to pursue “long-term passions around technical work in AI, open source and education.” However, Karpathy said he still had no concrete plans for what’s next.

Artificial Intelligence: Self-driving Vehicles – the Ace up Tesla’s Sleeve

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Tesla’s major advantage over other self-driving vehicles is hiding in plain sight (pardon the pun).
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) uses a vision-based approach that combines its cars’ suite of cameras and AI to navigate in self-driving mode. On the other hand, autonomous rivals such as Waymo and Cruise rely on LiDAR, a technology that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is rather dismissive about: “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed.” Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy explains the difference in a February lecture.