Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been significantly targeted on Twitter after his $44 billion buy of the corporate. Musk has been slicing prices by decreasing Twitter’s workforce, although he not too long ago tapped some new expertise to assist repair a couple of key options on the social media platform.
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Above: Twitter on a cell phone. Picture: Joshua Hoehne / Unsplash
Hacker George Hotz has been quickly employed by Musk to repair Twitter’s search perform, as detailed in a report from Tech Crunch. The place is anticipated to final simply 12 weeks, and the location’s search performance is one among two targets Hotz has been tasked with throughout this era.
Hotz grew to become identified for early iPhone hacking and reverse engineering the PS3, each of which introduced him into the general public focus within the tech world. Since then, Hotz based Comma.ai, which plans to develop a driver help system much like Tesla’s Autopilot. The corporate got here after an argument through which Hotz was apparently employed by Tesla to work on Autopilot, earlier than Musk reportedly “saved altering the phrases.”
On the time, Hotz claimed his expertise might outperform Autopilot and he set out with Comma.ai to do exactly that. At present, Comma.ai gives a $1,999 driver help system developer package, which is suitable with over 200 automobiles. Apparently, Hotz took a step away from Comma.ai simply weeks earlier than the announcement of plans to assist out at Twitter, saying in a prolonged weblog publish that he was “taking a while away” from the corporate.
The deal was uniquely labored out between Hotz and Musk over Twitter, through which Hotz supplied to do a 12-week internship for the price of dwelling in San Francisco.
Along with fixing Twitter search, Hotz is as much as the hefty secondary activity of “attempting to do away with that nondismissable login pop up after you scroll a bit of bit.” Hotz later added within the thread that, even when he solely removed the pop-up, he would “nonetheless think about [his] internship a win.”
Hotz additionally reached out to Tesla’s former AI Director Andrej Karpathy asking if he needed to assist with the Twitter search mission, saying “there’s a variety of low hanging fruit…” In response, Karpathy famous that he makes use of “website: https://twitter.com/” on Google to go looking Twitter, including that it “works fairly properly.”
The information comes amidst lively recruiting at Twitter for each engineering and gross sales roles. It’s not solely clear why long-time rivals Musk and Hotz are teaming up collectively now, however it’s potential it might result in greater than a 12-week internship — particularly if he can repair Twitter search throughout that point in spite of everything.
Supply: Tech Crunch
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