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... READ FULL ARTICLE
The word “hackers” in the title is kind-a misleading. A hackathon does not have anything to do with hackers: The word "hackathon" is a portmanteau of the words "hack" and "marathon", where "hack" is used in the sense of exploratory programming, not its alternate meaning as a reference to computer security.