Musk to Jim Keller — “The OpenAI guys are gonna want to kill me, but it had to be done…”
Musk writes to Jim Keller that Andrej accepted joining as Director of Tesla Vision, so anyone working on neural net software would report to him, with a probable start date in a week or two. He says Andrej is arguably the world’s #2 in computer vision after Ilya, expects the OpenAI people to want to kill him but says it had to be done, and plans to let Chris Lattner know at 11:30 that night, unsure whether Lattner will stay or go.
Just talked to Andrej and he accepted joining as Director of Tesla Vision, so anyone working on neural net software would report to him. Probable start date in a week or two.
Andrej is arguably the #2 guy in the world in computer vision after Ilya. The OpenAI guys are gonna want to kill me, but it had to be done…
Thank goodness. Lmk if you want to talk tonight or tomorrow.
Will let Chris Lattner know tonight at 11:30. Not sure if he will stay or go, but I won't be all that sad if the latter.
— Thu, Jun 8, 2017, 11:14 PM —
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