Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

11 days ago by return2ozma to c/aboringdystopia

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

Pollo_Jack 27 points 11 days ago

These chuckle-fucks still don't want liability for their designs but they want to replace pharmacologists and bridge builders?

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normalentrance 16 points 11 days ago

They'll put a little "ai sometimes makes mistakes." banner near the chat window. That should do it.

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usernametbd 2 points 11 days ago

No - they really don’t.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/...

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Dryad 23 points 11 days ago

Personally I wouldn’t trust a lawn chair engineered by AI…let alone anything consequential.

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Triumph 11 points 11 days ago

And the fact that nobody is starting with "design a lawn chair" is telling.

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joeljoelle 4 points 11 days ago

I'm waiting for the AI engineered car that looks like the one Homer Simpson designed.

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heliotrope 11 points 11 days ago

Boy, I sure someone would chain him to a rock and send an eagle to eat his liver every day for all eternity.

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justsomeguy 6 points 11 days ago

Them billionaires truly have an interesting self image. Prometheus he calls it. I don't know anyone further away from Prometheus than Bezos.

Giving fire to the people? Maybe to burn their houses down so they have to book sleep pods inside his warehouses where they slave away endlessly. He'd give the filthy mortals nothing for free. Nothing.

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melsaskca 5 points 11 days ago

Of course. While the whole worlds population is being phased out this guy does pie in the sky mulling but, because he can't mull, he needs to throw money at it in a desperate, quiet rage.

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