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Amazon Puts a Million Robots Behind Its AI Ambitions

Amazon’s third-quarter earnings brought the same concern that shadowed Alphabet’s results a day earlier: whether enormous artificial intelligence investments will deliver enough profit and cash to dispel fears of a spending bubble. Thursday’s (Oct. 29) call revolved largely around AI and Amazon Web Services, which CEO Andy Jassy said could become a trillion-dollar revenue business […] The post…

Amazon Puts a Million Robots Behind Its AI Ambitions

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Using machine learning to build safer cities

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Poverty in the age of plenty: The paradox of AI

We are approaching a world in which intelligence is abundant, information is virtually free and machines can do in seconds what once took humans months. But strangely, the more technologically advanced we become, the less we perceive what truly matters. We have more ways to communicate but feel more disconnected.

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