Watch how Tesla trains its neural networks for self-driving in 10 minutes - Electrek

Andrej Karpathy, Tesla's head of AI and computer vision, gave an interesting talk to get into how Tesla trains its neural networks for self-driving. It results in an interesting overview of the concept in about 10 minutes. Karpathy obtained his PhD from Stanford University in Machine Learning with a focus on Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing in 2016. In a short time, he made a name for himself in the space by teaching a new Stanford class on Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition that became very popular while he was doing his PhD. He was working for Elon Musk's new nonprofit AI research firm, OpenAI, since September 2016, and it looks like his research impressed Musk enough to hire him at Tesla to turn his neural net expertise into actual real-world applications.