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High school dropouts and PhD students alike, pay attention as Elon Musk has announced the hiring of a new team set to report directly to him. Like many affluent Americans, Twitter has become the platform and source for big announcements – the latest being Elon Musk’s hiring notice. This week via social media, the Tesla CEO released an advertisement saying, “Join AI at Tesla! It reports directly to me & we meet/email/text almost every day. My actions, not just words, show how critically I view (benign) AI.”
“Tesla will soon have over a million connected vehicles worldwide with sensors & compute needed for full self-driving, which is orders of magnitude more than everyone else combined, giving you the best possible dataset to work with,” Musk explained on Twitter.
Tesla will soon have over a million connected vehicles worldwide with sensors & compute needed for full self-driving, which is orders of magnitude more than everyone else combined, giving you the best possible dataset to work with
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020
Naturally, the announcement was followed with witty remarks and questions which Musk happily replied. One user sarcastically asked, “Have I got time to get a quick PHD in AI in to secure an invite?” Fair question, but the response was not expected. According to the automotive wizard, a PhD isn’t required, even finishing high school is optional.
“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,” he replied.
Have I got time to get a quick PHD in AI in to secure an invite?
— Sam 📈 (@SamTalksTesla) February 2, 2020
However, you must be a “hardcore coder”, he continued on the thread. “Our NN is initially in Python for rapid iteration, then converted to C++/C/raw metal driver code for speed (important!). Also, tons of C++/C engineers needed for vehicle control & entire rest of car. Educational background is irrelevant, but all must pass hardcore coding test.”
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
So, high school or not, do you have what it takes? Head to Tesla for more information.
