In your role as CTO, how has it changed what you do day to day, this rise of awareness, of foundation models, AI has been around a while, but has it changed things for you?

Yeah, I no longer need to talk to my customers about blockchain.

Well, there's a perk.

Welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop and recently I sat down with

Werner Vogels, the Amazon Chief Technology Officer at Amazon Headquarters in Seattle.

We talked about the evolution of artificial intelligence,

the promise of AI in health care and the environment,

his broader tech predictions for the year, and one of his most iconic

traditions at the company's annual cloud conference.

It's a fun one.

Hope you enjoy.

Dr. Werner Vogels is chief technology officer at Amazon. enjoy. as an engineer, architect, scientist, programmer, troublemaker, executive, revisionist, inventor, mentor,

advisor, analyst, academic, sales guy, entrepreneur, data analyst, you probably never heard this

read out loud before, System administrator, product owner,

evangelist abator, father, musician, and biker.

And it notes that he does not deal well with BS

and incompetence, which means that I had better step up my game for this one.

You just asked the question.

So I'll answer.

Werner, thanks very much for sitting down with me.

I think you, Todd.

It's my pleasure to actually also support

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