Amazon Adds AI Expert Andrew Ng To Board as GenAI Race Heats Up (reuters.com) 11
Amazon on Thursday added Andrew Ng, the computer scientist who led AI projects at Alphabet's Google and China's Baidu, to its board amid rising competition among Big Techs to add users for their GenAI products. From a report: Amazon's cloud unit is facing pressure from Microsoft's early pact with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and integration of its technology into Azure, while Alexa voice assistant is in race with genAI chat tools from OpenAI and Google.
The appointment, effective April 9, also follows job cuts across Amazon, which has seen enterprise cloud spending and e-commerce sales moderate due to macroeconomic factors such as inflation and high interest rates. "As we look toward 2024 (and beyond), we're not done lowering our cost to serve," CEO Andy Jassy said in a letter to shareholders on Thursday.
The appointment, effective April 9, also follows job cuts across Amazon, which has seen enterprise cloud spending and e-commerce sales moderate due to macroeconomic factors such as inflation and high interest rates. "As we look toward 2024 (and beyond), we're not done lowering our cost to serve," CEO Andy Jassy said in a letter to shareholders on Thursday.
New leadership to lead the empty shell (Score:2)
Fire all the employees but have a really good leader. They know they're not going to have a good product if nobody builds it, right?
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Posting as AC, I've worked with that new leader ... not a leader. I'm pretty convinced things will progress even less with this announcement.
Andrew Ng. I keep hearing: (Score:2)
When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge:
'I don't want the world, I just want your half'
Great! (Score:3)
So I won't have to use Google Search to find stuff of Amazon, the Amazon search can't even differentiate between male and female.
Ng who? (Score:1)
So now all Amazon hiring moves will be broadcast on slashdot? Awesome.
And before you say "But, wait, this is ANDREW NG" look up what he's accomplished.
Nothing. He's a published researcher in academia who has accmplished nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
If you think he's actually accomplished something other than publishing, using up undergrads,
or wasting paper and toner cartridges post away below and downvote me.
This guy isn't a joke. He's not evn funny. He's just an example of what the phrase "