Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Tesla's Autopilot software head leaves the company six months after joining from Apple

Chris Lattner, a longtime Apple software guru, has left his post running software for Tesla’s Autopilot division after just six months. Lattner announced his departure in a tweet late Tuesday. Earlier in the evening, Tesla announced that it had hired leading AI expert Andrej Karpathy as the company’s new director of AI and Autopilot. Karpathy had previously been a researcher at OpenAI, a nonprofit effort to advance artificial intelligence started by Musk and other Silicon Valley veterans.

“Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me after all,” Lattner wrote. “I'm interested to hear about interesting roles for a seasoned engineering leader!”

A Tesla spokesperson confirmed Lattner’s departure, adding that "Chris just wasn’t the right...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/15844280/tesla-autopilot-software-chris-lattner-ai-quit

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/06/teslas-autopilot-software-head-leaves.html

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