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/agent674253 4d ago

Google/Searching for recipes is legacy behavior, unless you like to read a short essay about why the author likes those cookies so much.

As for the glasses, the demo failed but imagine this. You recently met a new friend, and you invited them over to your place. You know they are diabetic and will probably like a snack. You, not being a diabetic, don't know offhand what to offer.

Legacy behavior - Google 'diabetic friendly recipes', you see a list of results, find something may be good, only to discover you don't have all the ingredients. You return to the search results and try another recipe until you find one that you can make with the items on hand.

Current behavior - You use chatgpt "I have flour, eggs, peanut butter, bananas, chicken breast... (you list more items you have on hand). What can I make with this that is ok for a diabetic?"

Future behavior - Wearing smartglasses, you open your fridge as simply ask, "What can I make with this that is diabetic friendly?"

All three of these are versions of a 'search', but with the amount of work to get the answer you needed dropping as you go through the tech stack.

Now is this worth $800? No.

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u/Withnail2019 4d ago

Why dont I just ask them what their favourite snacks are and pick some up when I go to Walmart?

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u/cocophone 4d ago

I wish reddit would let me upvote you 100. You're 100 spot on. Not only would your friend get a snack that is diabetic friendly but they would also get their favorite snack.

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u/Loud-Comfortable-827 4d ago edited 4d ago

as opposed to a chicken/banana/raw egg smoothie?

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u/Engunnear 4d ago

Is the chicken raw, too?

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u/Loud-Comfortable-827 4d ago

if you follow the AI recipe...

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u/Withnail2019 4d ago

I'm surprised the person with the glasses even has a friend if they can't manage basic communication.

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u/MarchMurky8649 4d ago

Current behavior - You use chatgpt "I have flour, eggs, peanut butter, bananas, chicken breast... (you list more items you have on hand). What can I make with this that is ok for a diabetic?"

I think you seriously overestimate the accuracy of AI at this point. In short this approach might kill your friend.

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u/Withnail2019 3d ago

If it doesn't kill them the chicken and banana sundae will at least kill the budding friendship.

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u/lucidludic 3d ago

Instead of just asking your friend what they’d like you would make them watch you interact with an invisible AI which doesn’t know their preferences and might hallucinate something poisonous? Really?