Amazon’s $1 billion industrial innovation fund is to step up investments in companies that combine artificial intelligence and robotics, as the ecommerce giant seeks to drive efficiencies across its logistics network.
Franziska Bossart, head of the corporate venture capital arm that was set up in 2022, told the Financial Times that “generative AI holds a lot of promise for robotics and automation” and is an area “we are going to focus on this year.”
The hardest part is teaching them to pee in bottles
2028:
Amazon Tactical partners with DoD to build “autonomous combat mechs”
2031:
"Hackers steal Amazon Armed Delivery mech, and turn it to a sex bot.
Huh, I always though Musk would be Ted Faro not Bezos.
Given what we learned about the Neuralink monkeys, I think there’s a major difference between Musk and Faro.
Musk’s drones would devour dolphins by design, not because they learned it on their own and became out of control.
Ahem, Fuck Ted Faro.
Why not both? It can always be both of them.
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What happens when your forklift starts to hallucinate?
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
Let the ai robots loose on the floor to discover productivity by themselves. I bet they figure out that giving random chair massages, pats on the back and cake 🍰 distribution is the best way to improve ROI. Depending on company culture and regulation, hand jobs or spanking might also be involved to attract new employees.
Wen sex bot