Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk took to Twitter Sunday to do some recruiting for the company’s artificial intelligence team. As part of a pitch to attract talent to the Autopilot team, Musk said he will host an AI “party/hackathon” at his house.
Tesla says the Autopilot team’s mission is to “develop and deploy autonomy at scale.”
“We believe that an approach based on advanced AI for vision and planning, supported by efficient use of inference hardware is the only way to achieve a general solution to full self-driving,” the company says on a recently-added Autopilot recruitment webpage.
Musk emphasized that the positions are open to a wide range of of candidates, as long as they have a “deep understanding” of AI.
A PhD is definitely not required. All that matters is a deep understanding of AI & ability to implement NNs in a way that is actually useful (latter point is what’s truly hard). Don’t care if you even graduated high school.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020
The “party/hackathon” will take place in about four weeks, according to Musk. Invites will go out soon. He said it will be “super fun.”
Tesla will hold a super fun AI party/hackathon at my house with the Tesla AI/autopilot team in about four weeks. Invitations going out soon.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020
Included in the string of recruiting highlights was an emphasis on Tesla’s ever-expanding dataset as more Tesla vehicles take to roads around the world. Musk also boasted about the company’s in-vehicle hardware and training supercomputer called “Dojo.”
Dojo, our training supercomputer, will be able to process vast amounts of video training data & efficiently run hypersparce arrays with a vast number of parameters, plenty of memory & ultra-high bandwidth between cores. More on this later.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020
Tesla also appealed to applicants interested in working on the company’s chip designed to power autonomy, as well as software developers.
“Educational background is irrelevant, but all must pass hardcore coding test,” Musk tweeted.
Musk said the AI team reports directly to him and they communicate almost every day.
“My actions, not just words, show how critically I view (benign) AI,” he tweeted.