Amazon's AI strategy, how AI startups can stand out, and hope for AI and humanity
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4.4 • 116 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we look at how Amazon is positioning itself in the emerging era of generative artificial intelligence. We play and assess clips of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explaining the company's AI strategy on its earnings call this week.
We also discuss the history of AI usage by startups, and consider advice from investors and startup leaders at Seattle Tech Week for emerging tech companies looking to stand out with their own AI applications and solutions.
And finally, we reconsider our approach to interacting with machines and contemplate the possibility of artificial intelligence reflecting not just the worst but the best of humanity.
Related links and headlines
- Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes
- Leaked email shows Amazon formed a new group to work on the 'most ambitious' AI models
- How Seattle startups are ‘supercharging’ internal operations with AI
- Why Using a Polite Tone with AI Matters
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| 0:00.0 | His point in this article is that it's actually better for you as a user of |
| 0:07.8 | generative AI when you're interacting with a chatbot to use polite language and I actually used the opposite |
| 0:15.8 | approach I was like I'm not talking with a human here I can be a real |
| 0:18.9 | ass yeah that's that's all I am too. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi and welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. And I'm GeekWire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:31.0 | We're coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening |
| 0:34.6 | around us in business, technology, and innovation. |
| 0:37.7 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show we talk about some of the most |
| 0:41.5 | interesting stories and trends in the news. |
| 0:44.8 | Coming up this week, Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO, tries to make the case that the company is not |
| 0:51.3 | catching up in AI but but is actually ahead, and that Generative |
| 0:55.3 | AI will be a driver of growth for Amazon going forward. |
| 0:58.8 | We'll hear and assess his comments later on in the show. |
| 1:02.8 | But first, John, let's talk about something |
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| 1:17.0 | Tell us about this event. |
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