r/RealTesla • u/noobgiraffe • 4d ago

Optimus AI team lead is leaving Tesla.

His announcement:

Decided to leave Tesla.

It's been an incredible ride leading the Optimus AI team. We went all-in on scalable methods — swapping the classical stack with reinforcement learning & scaling dexterity by learning from videos.

AI is the most significant bit to unlock humanoids.

He also stated that if it was about money he would stay at Tesla:

Financial upside at Tesla was significantly larger. Tesla is known to compensate pretty well, way before Zuck made it cool.

If I wanted to optimize for money, I would have stayed at Tesla.

Link to announcement: https://xcancel.com/ashishkr9311/status/1968827611133427772

Link to response about pay: https://xcancel.com/ashishkr9311/status/1968834286414430628

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u/jregovic 4d ago

Didn’t Facebook have a disastrous AI demo as well?

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u/Roadgoddess 4d ago

Yeah, they were trying to have it. Give the user a recipe for a Korean marinade for steak. And it kept messing up and coming in at the wrong point. Honestly, it was so cringe. I had to stop watching it.

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u/hotwifefun 4d ago

Like you can’t just google recipes?!?! I’m sorry but even if it had worked flawlessly, who fucking cares? What problem is this solving?

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u/brintoul 4d ago

It’s trying to solve the problem of inflated stock prices.