Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects generative artificial intelligence to reduce his company workforce in the next few years if the online giant increases its use of the technology.
“We will need fewer people who do some of today’s jobs and more people who do other types of jobs,” said Jassy in a message to the employees. “It is difficult to know where this is called over time, but in the next few years we expect our entire company workforce reduce this, as we achieve efficiency gains through the use of AI throughout the company.”
The executive said that Amazon has built more than 1,000 generative AI services and applications in the works or built, but this number is a “small part” of the structure of what it wants to build.
Jassy encouraged the employees to go on board with the AI plans of the e-commerce company.
“If we go through this transformation together, be curious about AI, inform yourself, take part in workshops and take training, invent with AI in the Brappier teams for our customers and with Scrappier teams more, ifever you can, take part in the Brappier team.
At the beginning of this month, Amazon announced that it was planned invest 10 billion US dollars for the construction of a campus in North Carolina to expand the infrastructure for cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
Since the beginning of 2024, Amazon has committed to data center projects in about 10 billion US dollars MississippiPresent IndianaPresent Ohio And North Carolina While it increases its infrastructure to compete with other tech giants to satisfy the growing demand for products for artificial intelligence.
The quick growth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence In the meantime, has heated the demand for energy -hungry data centers that require electricity for servers, storage systems, network devices and cooling systems. Amazon said at the beginning of this month that it would spend 20 billion US dollars Two data center complexes in Pennsylvania.
Amazon started in March Test Artificial intelligence-supported synchronization for selected films and shows that are offered in its prime streaming service. The company A introduced a month earlier Generative Ai infused Alexa.
Amazon has also invested more in AI. In November, the company stated that an additional 4 billion US dollars in the startup for artificial intelligence Anthropic. Chipmacher two months earlier Intel His foundry business would make some custom artificial intelligence chips for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing unit from Amazon and a main driver of his ambitions for artificial intelligence.
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