Gary Marcus

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4/3/2024, 10:16:00 PM
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Bill W
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@GaryMarcus @bsgallagher
Elon Musk
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@SawyerMerritt Ethan is very talented, but “vision chief” would be overstating things.

There are over 200 excellent engineers in the Tesla AI/Autonomy team. Tesla’s pace of progress with autonomy is accelerating.

The talent war for AI is the craziest talent war I’ve ever seen!
Gary Marcus
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@bsgallagher So why is his attention so scattered and why did he let his head of AV vision go?

Interesting also that uncharacteristically he didn’t attach a date to that.
Brian Gallagher
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@GaryMarcus This was 5 days ago
Elon Musk
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@alex_avoigt Most people still have no idea how crushingly good Tesla FSD will get.

It will be superhuman to such a degree that it will seem strange in the future that humans drove cars, even while exhausted and drunk!

Cars will take you where you want automatically, just like getting in an…
Gary Marcus
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Conjecture: Elon has given up on Tesla.

He once said that “Solving self-driving was the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money and being worth basically zero”

And now he has just let the vision lead at the FSD project walk out the door, without matching comp. He…
Gary Marcus
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not a vote of confidence from Elon in FSD leading to fleets of robotaxis any time soon. sounds like he has all but given up.

if he thought that was imminent, he would match the compensation.

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