Tesla lays off nearly 200 Autopilot employees who help train the company’s AI

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Labelling data is essential for developing many AI systems

are the latest job losses at Tesla after CEO Elon Musk told company execs that the firm needed toThe layoffs centered on Tesla’s offices in San Mateo, California, where employees were working on the company’s driver-assistance feature Autopilot. Many of those affected were reportedly hourly workers tasked with labeling training data.

Such work is essential for developing AI systems but often low-skilled and low-paid. In recent years, many companies have turned toData labelling is essential to developing AI systems like Autopilotreports that Tesla’s San Mateo office originally had a headcount of 276. Some 195 employees have been laid off, says the publication, including data labelers, analysts, and supervisors, leaving 81 employees who will reportedly be relocated to another office.

 

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So, training is over, everything works perfectly I guess? 🤣

Gee, I hope they can LOCATE a new job after working for the Hype Monster.

That’s nothing . We are teaching badging now . If you don’t come everyday you receive an email from absense tesla and you have to send an email report to your manager .

I wish someone else ran Tesla.

Tell me again why this is an admirable company?

Anyone want my Tesla stock? Might make good tp

Seems like the real story is just about to start. tesla

'Just train it with customer data, what's the worst that can happen at this stage'

Oh that must mean they’ve perfected it, I’ll be sure to let the families of the dead know they have nothing to grieve over anymore, Tesla’s got it figured out! sarcasm you’d be disgusted if you knew someone who was killed by a fucking car’s AI because some dipshit took a nap

Oh! Now, I can see a future of AI 😤

I mean, doesn't it make sense? The closer autopilot comes to finish, the closer you come to needing a maintenance team rather than a developing team.

“All human input is error” - Elon Musk, 2022

It’s called ‘at will’ American labor laws

Well Tesla has never cared about safety so why is this a surprise?

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