Today, Bloomberg reported that Tesla just laid off around 200 data-labelling employees from the Autopilot team and closed a branch in San Mateo, California. This lines up with Tesla's goal to make all autopilot data auto-labelled, and hopefully this shows that significant progress has been made.
This is promising news for FSD's Neural Networks being trained to label data.
Andrej Karpathy, Director of AI at Tesla, stated last year that around Tesla hired 1,500 employees to auto-label data, making this about a 13% cut in employees in that sector.
In addition, this past month, Elon Musk stated that he would cut 10% of salaried jobs at Tesla, while many in the data-labelling team were reported as hourly workers. Regardless, Tesla appears to be making appropriate cuts to make their workforce as efficient as possible.
(Featured Image Courtesy of Tesla, Inc)
Source: Bloomberg, Drive Tesla Canada
This is promising news for FSD's Neural Networks being trained to label data.
Andrej Karpathy, Director of AI at Tesla, stated last year that around Tesla hired 1,500 employees to auto-label data, making this about a 13% cut in employees in that sector.
In addition, this past month, Elon Musk stated that he would cut 10% of salaried jobs at Tesla, while many in the data-labelling team were reported as hourly workers. Regardless, Tesla appears to be making appropriate cuts to make their workforce as efficient as possible.
(Featured Image Courtesy of Tesla, Inc)
Source: Bloomberg, Drive Tesla Canada
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