Andrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla

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TaylorAlexander · 2021-07 · Strong recommendation

You can learn about their systems by watching talks by Andrej Karpathy. As a robotics engineer interested in vision, their architecture is inspiring. This talk [1] is a good overview but each talk he gives is a little different so search for more if you want to know as much as possible. But the big thing is that their autonomy computer can be programmed to look for odd scenarios and send them back home. Tesla uses their fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars to collect edge cases like this, and then they have a kind of compartmentalized neural network system that breaks apart disparate tasks. With their collected examples they can create unit tests to ensure that the moon stops activating the stoplight detector. Once trained, the unit tests presumably help ensure they don't end up with future regressions. So basically every time you see a Tesla do a weird thing, there is a good chance it will stop doing it soon enough. At least if it's hitting hacker news. [1] [VIDEO]

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TaylorAlexander · 2021-01 · Strong recommendation

Removing the cameras may be a good idea, but note that their extensive fleet of camera-equipped vehicles is an important part of their potentially VERY lucrative self driving software development. EDIT: I highly recommend watching head of AI at Tesla Andrej Karpathy's talk on their self driving architecture. "The Fleet" as a source of data is a vital functional part of their self driving software development. They may be able to calculate that including cameras and a computer on a car that will ship in high volumes would increase sales of their self driving option across all Tesla vehicles (including that low cost model) enough to justify the inclusion of those parts. [VIDEO]

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maxharris · 2020-07 · Strong recommendation

If you actually believe that Tesla will fail to deliver full self-driving in the coming years, I have two questions. 1. have you watched this entire technical presentation made by Andrej Karpathy, Senior Director of AI at Tesla? [VIDEO] 2. if you understand what you've seen in that video, why do you think Tesla will fail?

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