Elon Musk Hires PlayStation 3 Hacker To Fix Twitter
George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix the social media website’s search function
Elon Musk Hires PlayStation 3 Hacker To Fix Twitter
George Hotz is best known for jailbreaking the iPhone’s carrier-lock and hacking the PlayStation 3. Now Elon Musk has set him on his most momentous technical challenge: Fixing Twitter in three months. Okay, not all of it. He was hired to fix Twitter’s currently-broken search function.
Musk previously tried to hire the hacker for Tesla, but they had a falling out over the terms of employment. Hotz later founded Comma AI, a company that developed a competing software against Tesla’s autopilot AI. Musk then beefed with him in 2015 over whether a single person or a small company (like Comma AI) “that lacks extensive engineering validation capability” would be able to create autonomous driving software that can be used in real cars. Back then, he clearly didn’t think that an upstart like Hotz could unseat a major industry giant like Tesla, but it seems that Musk has undergone a significant change of heart since. He’s now hired Hotz to fix something that should probably take an entire engineering team. Character growth: We love to see it.
https://kotaku.com/elon-musk-twitter-playstation-3-george-hotz-tesla-1849816893
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