Tesla Lays Off About 200 Autopilot Workers in Latest Cuts

“[Laid off workers] were tasked with evaluating customer vehicle data related to the Autopilot driver-assistance features and performing so-called data labeling.”

The Tesla bull will say that Tesla’s ML has gotten so good that these human curators are now unnecessary. The Tesla bear will counter that this is merely to keep up appearances; it looks a hell of a lot better to fire data curators over machine learning engineers, even if the former are still just as (if not more!) necessary as the latter.