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Elon Musk News - Tesla Hiring Humans for Robot Work · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Elon Musk
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  Podcast. Today we delve into Tesla's
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  extensive summer recruitment. Dr. aimed at hiring seasonal
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  test drivers to accumulate high quality data for enhancing
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  vehicle performance. This remarkable shift from using
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  realtime data from Tesla owners to a more focused internal
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  testing approach could herald a new chapter for the EV giants
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  technological advancement. We also discussed the intriguing
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  stipulations of these roles. The criticism?
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  Tesla faced over data collection in the recent class action
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  lawsuit that brought the company under scrutiny.
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  Then we shift gears and explore the world of social media,
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  focusing on Meta's latest venture, Threads, which aims to
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  carve out a space for less combative conversations.
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  Instagram head Adam Masri's curious take on the platform's
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  role in a seeming departure from promoting hard news and
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  politics. Might redefine the concept of
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  social media platforms such as Twitter.
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  And before we get into that, we're going to take a quick
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  break. But we'll be right back with
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  more about Elon Musk, Tesla, Meta, and Twitter.
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  The electric vehicle giant Tesla is set to embark on a massive
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  recruitment drive this summer to hire a multitude of seasonal
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  workers to test drive its cars. This is a clear indication that
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  the company aims to accumulate a wealth of high quality data that
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  can be used to enhance vehicle performance.
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  As per job postings that have become increasingly visible on
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  its career page over the last couple of weeks, the drive will
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  span a period of three months and will include both daytime
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  and nighttime shifts. And while Tesla has historically
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  hired test drivers, this new wave of job offerings could
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  signify a shift in the company's testing methodologies rather
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  than relying heavily on realtime data derived from Tesla owners
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  to tested software, including the full Selfdriving program
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  that's currently in beta. Tesla appears to be investing
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  more heavily in internal testing now.
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  The test drivers are primarily hired to fine tune Tesla's
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  Autopilot driver assist feature and its full self driving
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  software, currently in beta. As previously explained by
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  former test driver John Bernal, test drivers are typically
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  tasked with driving test vehicles that have been rigged
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  with a variety of sensors. They must regularly replicate
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  situations that could potentially confuse Tesla's full
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  self driving software, such as unusual intersections or left
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  hand turns, and the data that's acquired is later scrutinized
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  and labeled by data labelers based in Tesla plans.
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  The Recruitment Dr. does not require applicants to possess a
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  degree, however, the job listing specifies that applicants must
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  maintain a clean driving record. Demonstrates safe driving habits
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  and have a minimum of four years of licensed driving experience.
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  The company has listed job vacancies in over a dozen
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  cities, which include Austin, TX, Denver, Co, and Brooklyn,
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  NY. The rules offer a hourly pay
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  scale ranging from $18.00 to $48, accompanied by benefits,
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  and the salary expectations have been made public in the LinkedIn
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  job posting for the Brooklyn Roll.
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  In accordance with New York State law, which mandates the
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  company's disclose potential salary ranges in their job
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  advertisements. Nevertheless, Tesla has faced
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  criticism and legal repercussions in the past due to
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  the alleged collection of data from its EV owners.
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  Earlier this year, a class action lawsuit was launched by
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  Tesla owners following a Reuters report claiming that Tesla
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  employees had access to photos and videos obtained by cameras
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  used by Tesla Driving Assistance programs, allegedly.
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  The footage was sometimes shared and made the subject of internal
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  jokes. Tesla has refrained from
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  commenting on this issue. Now let's switch our focus to
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  another tech giant meta in the recent Venture Threads social
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  media app. Bearing a very striking
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  resemblance to Twitter, it seems unlikely to fill the shoes of
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  its predecessor, though the company appears to be showing a
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  lack of interest in molding the new app into a hub for breaking
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  news and world events in response to a query from the
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  Verges. Alex Heath, Instagram head.
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  Adam Masri, who is also the head of Threads, stated that Mehta's
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  aim is not to replace Twitter. Instead, the company seeks to
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  establish a public square for community is on Instagram that
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  have not fully embraced Twitter. It also aims to attract
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  communities from Twitter and other platforms who desire a
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  less combative space for discussions.
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  He emphasized that while politics and hard news are
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  important, they may not necessarily generate worthwhile
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  engagement or revenue given the negativity scrutiny.
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  And integrity risks they often bring along.
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  Now this perspective, however, appears to be strangely
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  discordant and potentially alarming.
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  The company's depiction of itself as a neutral platform for
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  connection has been used previously by Facebook, with
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  Mark Zuckerberg frequently promoting this vision.
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  Contrary to its state of neutrality, Facebook has
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  routinely incentivized specific forms of content and behavior.
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  Inadvertently nudging its users further into ideological silos
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  and fueling the polarization and extremism and rampant in global
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  politics today, The fact is well known to Masri, former head of
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  Facebook's News Feed, although it appears that he is taking
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  away the wrong lessons from it. Following its highly criticized
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  performance during the 2016 presidential election and its
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  subsequent role in hosting the Stop the Steel movement,
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  culminating in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6th,
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  Facebook decided to rebrand and retreat.
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  The seemingly unrealistic aspiration for a social network
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  existing in a vacuum, detached from influencing the world
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  positively or negatively, is about by.
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  Unfortunately, the introduction of threads will inevitably draw
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  politics and hard news into its realm.
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  Already anti L, GB, TQ plus hate groups such as Libs of Tiktok
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  are making their presence felt on the platform without Meta's
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  willingness to invest in or prepare for counteractive
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  forces. Extremism and viral
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  misinformation. It'll undoubtedly overshadow
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  legitimate news sources that decide to dedicate resources to
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  the new app. In a recent times, Meta appears
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  to have lost its inclination to support journalism.
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  The company's track record of extracting benefits from news
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  organization, often through bait and switch tactics, stands as a
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  testament to this. Meta is restricting access to
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  news in Canada in retaliation against new laws.
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  This action seems quite ironic from a company that's worth $745
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  billion, and they do not pay any news organizations to put the
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  news on the platform. Now on a whole, Masri's take on
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  the public square appears to lack historical perspective,
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  though Instagram and Threads are meticulously designed to merge
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  regularly users with brands promoting commercial activity at
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  every opportunity and despite the concept of a virtual public
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  square or a town hall. Often being invoked by social
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  media executives to advance their agendas, historical public
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  squares aren't exclusive domains for trade and commerce, their
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  areas of culture and platforms for political discourse, and
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  they're inherently bound to the complexities of social
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  existence. So Mark Zuckerberg, known for
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  his fascination with classics and who named his children after
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  Roman emperors, would undoubtedly be aware that the
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  Roman forum was not merely A rustic shopping center.
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  At a location where people congregated, participated in
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  political life and were informed on Daily News.
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  Thank you so much for listening to the show.
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  I really do appreciate it. If you have a hot take on
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  threads, or if you are on threads, make sure to go over
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  there and join us because we do have a profile stage zero studio
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  on threads. So check us out over there.
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  We can communicate, we can hang out and we can discuss things in
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  maybe a Roman forum. We'll see how that goes.
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  Thanks everybody for listening. Take care of yourselves and each
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  other and I will see you in the next one.