Amazon puts AI in delivery vans; Ex-AMZN exec Dave Clark's new startup; AI vs. cancer
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🗓️ 12 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Artificial intelligence and automation are transforming the way companies get stuff to stores and doorsteps, changing the world of logistics, transportation and the supply chain, as demonstrated by a few Amazon-related stories we covered this week:
- Amazon's unveiling of a new "Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval (VAPR) system for the cargo hold of its electric Rivian vans;
- The announcement of Amazon’s next-generation fulfillment center, with updated and expanded versions of its robotics systems in Shreveport, La.
- Former Amazon executive Dave Clark's launch of a new supply chain technology startup, based in the Seattle area, with $100 million in funding out of the gate.
Those are our topics in our first two segments of the show this week. In the third segment, we hear more about the new Cancer AI Alliance spearheaded by Seattle’s Fred Hutch Cancer Center, in partnership with other national cancer research organizations and major tech companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia.
With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook.
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| 0:18.0 | The same thing that's happening in the Amazon warehouses is happening on the sports court too. |
| 0:28.0 | So it does raise these bigger issues about what's going to happen to the job market. |
| 0:34.4 | Well I just have to say we can take some comfort in the fact that you're back this week |
| 0:38.7 | that you, John Cook, have not been replaced as GeekWire Podcast co-host by Microsoft Co-Pilots, so score one for humanity. Welcome to GeekWire, I'm GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm GeekWire co-founder John Cook. |
| 1:00.0 | We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology and innovation. |
| 1:07.0 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show. |
| 1:11.0 | We talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news. |
| 1:15.4 | Good to see you John. |
| 1:16.4 | Great to see you. |
| 1:17.4 | All right, so I wanted to start this week's show and trust me I'm going somewhere with |
| 1:21.1 | this that's relevant but I wanted to ask you did you have any |
| 1:24.0 | favorite jobs growing up in your 20s or in your college years or even your high school |
| 1:29.6 | years that you think back on or even kind of remember when things come up related to that job these days? |
| 1:37.6 | Well, you know, Todd, I'm directly connected to the work I do today with one of my first jobs, which you know so well, which was compiling |
| 1:46.2 | obituary information every day by calling the funeral homes and asking who died and then transmitting that to the newspaper where it got |
| 1:54.8 | published as a list of those who died that day. So I'm very not too far off here in |
| 2:01.0 | my journalistic roots but that was one of my first jobs. |
| 2:05.2 | I remember we used to joke that you went from covering dead people to dead companies |
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