Elon Musk Hires iPhone Hacker, Tesla Rival To Fix Twitter's Search - InsideEVs

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Posted on EVANNEX connected December 05, 2022, by Peter McGuthrie

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been peculiarly focused connected Twitter aft his $44 cardinal acquisition of the company. Musk has been cutting costs by reducing Twitter’s workforce, though helium precocious tapped immoderate caller endowment to assistance hole a fewer cardinal features connected the societal media platform.

Above: Twitter connected a mobile phone. Photo: Joshua Hoehne / Unsplash

Hacker George Hotz has been temporarily hired by Musk to hole Twitter’s hunt function, arsenic elaborate successful a study from Tech Crunch. The presumption is expected to past conscionable 12 weeks, and the site’s hunt functionality is 1 of 2 goals Hotz has been tasked with during this period.

Hotz became known for aboriginal iPhone hacking and reverse engineering the PS3, some of which brought him into the nationalist absorption successful the tech world. Since then, Hotz founded Comma.ai, which plans to make a operator assistance strategy akin to Tesla’s Autopilot. The institution came aft an statement successful which Hotz was seemingly hired by Tesla to enactment connected Autopilot, earlier Musk reportedly “kept changing the terms.”

At the time, Hotz claimed his exertion could outperform Autopilot and helium acceptable retired with Comma.ai to bash conscionable that. Currently, Comma.ai offers a $1,999 operator assistance strategy developer kit, which is compatible with implicit 200 vehicles. Interestingly, Hotz took a measurement distant from Comma.ai conscionable weeks earlier the announcement of plans to assistance retired astatine Twitter, saying successful a lengthy blog station that helium was “taking immoderate clip away” from the company.

The woody was uniquely worked retired betwixt Hotz and Musk implicit Twitter, successful which Hotz offered to bash a 12-week internship for the outgo of surviving successful San Francisco.

In summation to fixing Twitter search, Hotz is up to the hefty secondary task of “trying to get escaped of that nondismissable login popular up aft you scroll a small bit.” Hotz aboriginal added successful the thread that, adjacent if helium lone got escaped of the pop-up, helium would “still see [his] internship a win.”

Hotz besides reached retired to Tesla’s erstwhile AI Director Andrej Karpathy asking if helium wanted to assistance with the Twitter hunt project, saying “there’s a batch of debased hanging fruit…” In response, Karpathy noted that helium uses “site: https://twitter.com/” connected Google to hunt Twitter, adding that it “works rather well.”

The quality comes amidst progressive recruiting astatine Twitter for some engineering and income roles. It’s not wholly wide wherefore long-time rivals Musk and Hotz are teaming up unneurotic now, but it’s imaginable it whitethorn pb to much than a 12-week internship — especially if helium tin hole Twitter hunt during that clip aft all.

Source: Tech Crunch

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