[Upper5Percent]

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/21/technology/tesla-apple-autopilot-chris-lattner/index.html

 

[Mister Dave]

 

[bro1999]

"Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me after all," Lattner tweeted late Tuesday.

Obviously not an amicable split. I bet clashing with Elon was the main reason.

 

[Upper5Percent]

My guess is that Lattner didn't take the Apple documents with him the left Apple...

Apple's CEO Outlines Autonomous Driving Project

http://www.automotive-fleet.com/cha...s-ceo-details-autonomous-driving-project.aspx

Apple is focusing on self-driving vehicle technology that Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook described as "a core technology" and the "mother of all AI projects" in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

Apple has moved toward developing the technology rather than a full vehicle after it rebooted a secret project known as Project Titan last year that had initially set out to develop a self-driving vehicle.

The project was handed over to Apple veteran Bob Mansfield in 2016.

 

[hellsop]

My guess is that Lattner didn't take the Apple documents with him the left Apple...

Apple's CEO Outlines Autonomous Driving Project

http://www.automotive-fleet.com/cha...s-ceo-details-autonomous-driving-project.aspx

Apple is focusing on self-driving vehicle technology that Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook described as "a core technology" and the "mother of all AI projects" in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

Apple has moved toward developing the technology rather than a full vehicle after it rebooted a secret project known as Project Titan last year that had initially set out to develop a self-driving vehicle.

The project was handed over to Apple veteran Bob Mansfield in 2016.

Lattner: "I didn't work directly on the autonomous stuff. I'm a language developer and a people manager, and excelled at getting the idea people and the project people to work together productively."
Musk: "So you're useless to me."

 

[Mister Dave]

Lattner: "I didn't work directly on the autonomous stuff. I'm a language developer and a people manager, and excelled at getting the idea people and the project people to work together productively."
Musk: "So you're useless to me."

And that took 6 months to figure out?

 

[DonC]

Well he won't have much difficulty finding a new super well paying gig. Anyone with experience and pulse has been golden for the last couple of years. If I had to guess I'd say he thought Tesla's current software was a mess. Not a message that Elon is willing to hear. FWIW Apple isn't known to be an easy place to work.

 

[scottf200]

Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision
Posted 17 hours ago by Darrell Etherington (@etherington)
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/t...ert-andrej-karpathy-to-lead-autopilot-vision/

Andrej Karpathy, one of the world’s leading experts in computer vision and deep learning, is joining Tesla as Director of AI and Autopilot Vision, reporting directly to Elon Musk. Andrej has worked to give computers vision through his work on ImageNet, as well as imagination through the development of generative models, and the ability to navigate the internet with reinforcement learning. He was most recently a Research Scientist at OpenAI.

Andrej completed his computer vision PhD at Stanford University, where he demonstrated the ability to derive complex descriptions of images using a deep neural net. For example, identifying not simply that there is a cat in a given picture, but that it is an orange, spotted cat, riding on a skateboard with red wheels on brown hardwood flooring (http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/main.pdf). He also created and taught “Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition,” the first and still leading deep learning course at Stanford.

Andrej will work closely with Jim Keller, who now has overall responsibility for Autopilot hardware and software.

 

[hellsop]

And that took 6 months to figure out?

Musk's a busy guy.

 

[KenC]

Lattner created Swift, the programming language for iOS. I don't know how that translates to his job responsibility at Tesla, but it seems a poor fit.

 

[Chris TX]

Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision
Posted 17 hours ago by Darrell Etherington (@etherington)
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/t...ert-andrej-karpathy-to-lead-autopilot-vision/

Much better fit for autonomous vehicles development than a fairly smart guy that invented a programming language.

Lattner created Swift, the programming language for iOS. I don't know how that translates to his job responsibility at Tesla, but it seems a poor fit.

And this, as well.