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Andrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla

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Self-driving & autonomous vehiclesMachine learning & deep learningComputer vision, speech & NLP

What it is

Andrej Karpathy, then Tesla's head of AI, presents at ScaledML 2020 on how Tesla builds full self-driving using vision-based neural nets and fleet data collection. He covers training custom detectors and neural nets gradually replacing traditional code.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN repeatedly points to it as the best public technical overview of Tesla's FSD approach, used both to defend and to critique Tesla's progress.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 3 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “have you watched this entire technical presentation made by Andrej Karpathy, Senior Director of AI at Tesla?”

    Technical presentation by Tesla's head of AI on full self-driving.

    maxharris, 2020-07 · Strong recommendation · in “German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving”

  2. “I highly recommend watching head of AI at Tesla Andrej Karpathy's talk on their self driving architecture.”

    Karpathy on self-driving architecture and fleet as data source.

    TaylorAlexander, 2021-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Tesla to produce $25K car as early as 2022”

  3. “Here's the most recent talk by Karpathy about this topic”

    Karpathy explains fleet data gathering for training self-driving neural nets.

    kjksf, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months”

  4. “You can watch that talk and see the approach they're taking.”

    Shows Tesla's approach and that the progress is real.

    fossuser, 2020-09 · Recommendation · in “Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: tesla autopilot, computer vision, fleet learning, andrej karpathy, autonomous driving

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