None of that is GenAI. Most aren't even Deep Learning, nor Machine Learning. These are just traditional AI optimization / search / path-finding algorithms.
@@BrianHockenmaierI don’t think I would put that type of inference/prediction in the same bucket as text or image gen. Like it would be weird to call an image predictor “generative” if it classifiers a cat correctly.
@@optimal284 Text or image gen is not all there is to generative AI. The transformer and diffusion architectures really allowed for models the size we have today, which is broadly called gen AI
tbf AI has actual uses, many of which were mentioned in this video. it's "generative" AI that's the new tech talking point and has yet to have any more use than being a novelty/gimmick
@@stevegarretson1828 It's probably not even AI; the scheduling and demand forecasting is more likely to be done by standard machine learning algorithms, perhaps some medium sized neural networks, but not really what you'd call AI.
Amazon uses AI for predictive analytics to manage inventory effectively and enhance customer experience through personalized recommendations Amazon uses AI to choose better packaging and reduce product damages, aiming for sustainability Amazon uses AI to feed data from online retail operations Amazon uses generative AI to manage tasks like perceiving, grasping, and moving products
@@LapisGarterthat’s not an example of using generative AI, also a lot of what you mention they’ve been doing that for a while. They’re just saying generative AI for the hype of the term
Every crash/collapse brings with it an equivalent market chance if you are early informed and equipped, I've seen folks amass up to $1m amid economy crisis, and even pull it off easily in favorable conditions. Unequivocally, the collapse is getting somebody somewhere rich.
The year has been really rough for everybody. But I've been able to cushion the effect though. Have you thought of using an investment advisor? They can make you good money especially during uncertain times like this.
Yes, I agree. I use a financial advisor too. Same person since 2020. I don't worry about whether the economy is going up or down or sideways. I always ride through.
NICOLE ANASTASIA PLUMLEE' is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
All these high level directors and employees at Amazon discuss these righteous and idealistic ideas on how increasing efficiency with AI will reduce the burden facing their workers. Sure, it might reduce the driver’s route distance or decrease the time it takes to package an item, but for every second AI helps save the workers, Amazon is going to tack on one more second to their employee’s workload. AI should be improving lives, but instead it’s just increasing profits, as usual.
@@peterbeater012 HTF would you know & even if you're right, WTF does that have to do with the point that we (our gov'ts) allow abhorrent wealth disparity & slavery to continue & grow unchecked?
Also surprised about the low quality of this report by a company that claims "CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news"... Its all over the place and doesn't focus to address the title of the video. Rookie mistakes, probably an intern actually writing these with ChatGPT 😂
"Al isn't coming for human jobs" Personally, I think people should stop saying this, even as a joke or with the "yet" on it. There's no value in that narrative. It WILL take a majority of jobs, possibly by the end of this decade, and we need to start preparing for that eventuality, right NOW! I lost my career path to Al last winter, and I know half a dozen other people who've also lost jobs to Al since last year! This IS coming, and the longer we delay adapting our society and economy, the more unfair it will get. but for my robust investment portfolio that I'd built over the years with my financial advisor, Abby Joseph Cohen, I'd be hungry and homeless
I know this FA, Abby Joseph Cohen Services but only by her reputation at Goldman Sachs; even though she's now involved in managing portfolios and providing investmnt guidance to clients. I have been trying to get in contact since I watched her interview on WSJ last month
@@RamseyAlaqelWell her name is 'ABBY JOSEPH COHEN SERVICES'. Just research the name. You'd find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
@@DennisSoklovthis is unsunstainble.. that might buy you another afew months if you're already in a position to exploit Al. anyway, the idea that humans can keep up with Al is utterly absurd.
This explains why the guitar I ordered that initially showed arriving in a week which literally arrived next day. I thought it had to have been from a partnership between Amazon and my local guitar center. Amazing that they are shipping same day and next day on many items.
The key to sustainability is permanent underground infrastructure that includes an automated delivery system similar to the old vacuum tube capsules used at banks and old office buildings.
And the funny thing is Amazon has the highest turn around rate in any warehouse/DC setting. I work for TJX DC and a good chunk of the employees are from Amazon. They state that Amazon does not care about their employees.. but does care about..... NUMBERS. Thanks for this information.
The title is misleading and should probably just be changed to AI instead of generative AI. The only thing they mentioned about their usage of generative AI is that "Generative AI predicts where to stock new items by linking them to similar products."
I feel like they should really use USPS more- after all the USPS carrier is coming to your house every day no matter what anyway so why make a different carrier come on a separate trip? Not as environmentally friendly.
I truly wish they could crack down on drop shippers. I hate that I have to sift through a dozen listings for the same cheap product. These vendors are not adding any value, they're only hiding things from blame and responsibility
Reporter: Would the lights in this warehouse function without generative AI? Does this concrete floor do its job as well without generative AI? Worker: [blank stare]
1:13 Funny how Tom Forte puts a "MAXIM group" graphic on the TV behind him, instead of putting up a background replacement image on his video call background. 😂
Amazon's responsibility is to their shareholders. But remember, the shareholders that they really care about are the board and executives. So, that statement, made by any corporation should be translated to a responsibility to the ruling class.
Last night I had to drive 120 miles (round trip) to deliver 4 packages (Amazon Flex) 😂 this morning I had to drive there again to deliver 50 packages. Why not combine the routes to reduce carbon emissions? I understand they promised the customer same day delivery, but it’s affecting our environment
Generative AI is a big unlock for Amazon like Steve Armato said in the video but in reality It's a combination of engineering, people, processes, and technology.
*Faster but certainly not better. Today I'm watching this just as I received my order. (much like always) Dented cans, flat bag of chips and a miracle that the glass pickle jars in one layer of bubble wrap made it unshattered. Just shoved in a box with little padding on some and no padding on the rest. Anyone else in the same cosmos?*
I don't get what is "generative" part in robo arm for example. Generative is for example writing text, music, creating images, But calling mini-robo cart or robotic arm as not AI, but generative AI sounds a bit weird.
I'm not seeing this speed up at all where I live, which is two hours away from Nashville. A couple times lately I have ordered items that have said a week or more for delivery (with Prime), yet they are not shipped out until the day or two before they arrive. The orders have come from the Nashville area. In that week or more wait, I could've driven to Nashville in hour and a half and picked up said items. Compare this with Orlando, Florida, where I used to live, where I could order an item and have it the next day. Also, keep in mind there is an Amazon center less than 10 minutes from my current home and FedEx is just down the road. As of now, the wait is at least five days on any order, where it used to be two, again, with Prime.
At 8:51 he said "someone needs to maintain" It's like removing hundreds of warehouse workers and keeping 5 workers to keep an eye on the machines . Is that really an answer Mr. Amazon ?
this video was really informative and the use of generative AI in improving delivery times is fascinating! however, i can't help but wonder if relying so much on AI might lead to job losses for delivery workers in the long run. it’s a double-edged sword, isn't it?
This was especially funny for me b/c right now. I ordered something from Amazon and it has been in a mailing loop for 2 weeks. Supposedly it's finally on the way. We'll see...
Wait a Minute. I am still trying to figure out the 2 day shipping? That stopped for a major part of the US. I am lucky if I get things within a week. This in the lower 48 too.
They are relying on machine learning while dismissing some human inputs. I say this a an Amazon Guru Flex driver (Guru is Amazon's term for drivers who delivered over 30k packages). There are suggestions I make that would improve customer deliveries and make driver's job easier, but I feel no one at Amazon really cares to listen. When I worked in manufacturing we used a Kanban system where workers would make suggestion that would improve work flow.
Instead of hand-wringing over jobs which will be lost to automation, it's time to start looking at what things need doing that aren't currently getting done adequately, while workers do mind-numbing machine-like work. For example we are in desperate need of more medical and caregiver personnel. The only way to get more is to pay for their education, and stop forcing people to go into debt before they even start earning.
Regardless if it's Gen AI or not, would it really be that bad if humans were automated out of Amazon warehouses in the next 20-25 years (conservatively). Automating the labor and delivery of their logistics just keeps people safe and healthy. THAT being safe, I know so many Amazon drivers and side hustlers so I would be curious what would replace those kinds of jobs
*But watching the end of the video, I believe that Amazon should completely eliminate the lion's share of trouble by eliminating human workforce entirely as robots do not tire to just dump a box of fragiles on a concrete step, Need no bathroom breaks, no looking on his cell phone for 90 seconds squandering company time, never gets sick, doesn't not need time off or sick or maternity leave, can work 24/7. and much less expensive than the obsolete human retained for PR. Did I mention the symphony of robots is more pleasure to have as company working in industrious harmony outdoing their predecessors..*
We had to return an item to Amazon the other day. It was a small light-bulb adaptor and it didn't fit. It was in a small box - slightly larger than a matchbox. We took it to the drop-off point and the lady there put it into a black bin-bag and then put a label on it. Talk about a waste of packaging.
The AI, if any, used in logistics, i.e. warehouse and delivery, operations is predictive AI, not generative AI. It looks like the Amazon management is trying to provide excuses so that they can defend their spending a huge amount of money for investments towards generative AI.
Ah, so that is the reason why 8 items I ordered that could easily fit in 2 small boxes are all individually boxed from the distribution center down the road "AI" must be "optimizing" it.
IA does not contribute to sustainability if the ultimate goal is to sell more stuff. There is a fundamental contradiction with capitalistic principals we have today such as high productivity. Selling more stuff means extracting more ressources and polluting more, there is no observed total decoupling of theses phenomenons at a global scale, no one has been capable of complete decoupling of his impact on ressource extraction and environmental pollution while increasing production, some may have achieved this partially with CO2 emissions which is very far away from true sustainability, climate is only 1 problem we have, humanity is literally at war with nature and drugged to natural ressources specially some that are not renewable. Also increasing the efficiency of processes has never reduced the environmental damage of those processes, because increased efficiency reduces costs and thus pricing and thus increases demand. This is a very old observation called the Jevon's paradox, we've known since at least the 19th century that improving efficiency of machines or processes does not equals less consumption and thus less pollution and better sustainability. History shows that efficiency improvements are what drive consumption upwards and thus pollution and ressource extraction upwards. Americans are very far away from understanding the world, they are living in a bubble and are incapable of understanding the implications of what they are doing. Amazon can brag all they want about efficiency and all that but they certainly have no right to say their model is sustainable or even suggest it is getting closer to sustainable. IA will allow only one thing, increased consumption because that is the real goal of these tools. The only sustainable way forward is decreased production, believing we will become sustainable on the long term while increasing growth is like believing is Santa Claus, all data on the matter shows it is impossible, we have 200 years of history to prove it, we have never stopped increasing our environmental impact since the industrial revolution, no technology has changed that, and our energy and ressource consumption is the same, we have never decreased our demand for energy or ressources, we have never needed as many ressources and as much energy as today.
For everyone yes this is Generative Ai. Its uses Deep ML algorithms and transformer model (GAN), for the robots to find new paths, and faster routes for the robots to get all the packages.
I was surprised that Amazon's VP of Transportation Tech and Services connected Generative AI to the speed of package delivery. Does he even understand what he's talking about?
I’m pretty confident no one involved in the production of this video knows what generative AI is
neither do CEOs like sundar pichai. they just memorize the first few sentences of the ai wikipedia page and repeat it everywhere
And you seem to also have no clue what ML, Deep ML, or Gen Ai actually is
Well the video editors might, the tools they use are getting more automated by the day (and requiring less people)
None of that is GenAI. Most aren't even Deep Learning, nor Machine Learning. These are just traditional AI optimization / search / path-finding algorithms.
They literally talk about how they transformer models bud
@@BrianHockenmaierI don’t think I would put that type of inference/prediction in the same bucket as text or image gen. Like it would be weird to call an image predictor “generative” if it classifiers a cat correctly.
Source: trust me bro
@@optimal284 Text or image gen is not all there is to generative AI. The transformer and diffusion architectures really allowed for models the size we have today, which is broadly called gen AI
Wrong, shows you don’t really understand ML or Deep ML
So they just say "generative ai" in front of every tech they already use and now it's much better?
It's not even generative AI. It's just AI.
tbf AI has actual uses, many of which were mentioned in this video. it's "generative" AI that's the new tech talking point and has yet to have any more use than being a novelty/gimmick
ML is now labelled as AI
@@stevegarretson1828 It's probably not even AI; the scheduling and demand forecasting is more likely to be done by standard machine learning algorithms, perhaps some medium sized neural networks, but not really what you'd call AI.
exactly what i said, this is misleading
Where's the generative AI here?
I didn’t hear anything about generative AI - just corporate talking points
Did you watch the video
Amazon uses AI for predictive analytics to manage inventory effectively and enhance customer experience through personalized recommendations
Amazon uses AI to choose better packaging and reduce product damages, aiming for sustainability
Amazon uses AI to feed data from online retail operations
Amazon uses generative AI to manage tasks like perceiving, grasping, and moving products
@@LapisGarterThese are just show-off bullet points that you have typed. There is no real meaning to it.😒
@@LapisGarterthat’s not an example of using generative AI, also a lot of what you mention they’ve been doing that for a while. They’re just saying generative AI for the hype of the term
That reporter is like "is this genAI" & guy is like "lady, that's been here for 20 years"
Really sick of how freely and loosely we use terms like "Generative AI"
I don’t see the use of Gen AI, This is all just done on conventional methods so really no big deal. It’s just called digitalization
Every crash/collapse brings with it an equivalent market chance if you are early informed and equipped, I've seen folks amass up to $1m amid economy crisis, and even pull it off easily in favorable conditions. Unequivocally, the collapse is getting somebody somewhere rich.
The year has been really rough for everybody. But I've been able to cushion the effect though. Have you thought of using an investment advisor? They can make you good money especially during uncertain times like this.
Yes, I agree. I use a financial advisor too. Same person since 2020. I don't worry about whether the economy is going up or down or sideways. I always ride through.
Oh, really? I have never thought of that as an option. Can I ask who it is you've been working with? I bet I could use some help myself.
NICOLE ANASTASIA PLUMLEE' is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
Thank you for the lead. I searched her up, and I have sent her an email. I hope she gets back to me soon.
Drink every time they miss use the phrase "Generative AI"
This absolutely exposes all these management people. They just chase hypes without any real leadership. What the hell is generative here ?
The generative here is the propaganda that amazon management pulled out of their ass.
All these high level directors and employees at Amazon discuss these righteous and idealistic ideas on how increasing efficiency with AI will reduce the burden facing their workers. Sure, it might reduce the driver’s route distance or decrease the time it takes to package an item, but for every second AI helps save the workers, Amazon is going to tack on one more second to their employee’s workload.
AI should be improving lives, but instead it’s just increasing profits, as usual.
Says the Amazon buyer addict 🙄
Spot on mate🤜
@@peterbeater012 HTF would you know & even if you're right, WTF does that have to do with the point that we (our gov'ts) allow abhorrent wealth disparity & slavery to continue & grow unchecked?
True. Amazon deliveries, packaging and customer service feels so much worse recently. Even borderline terrible
None of this requires generative AI, this is just computer vision and standard machine learning they've always used. What is this reporting?
Also surprised about the low quality of this report by a company that claims "CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news"... Its all over the place and doesn't focus to address the title of the video. Rookie mistakes, probably an intern actually writing these with ChatGPT 😂
It's just fluff.
"Al isn't coming for human jobs" Personally, I think people should stop saying this, even as a joke or with the "yet" on it. There's no value in that narrative. It WILL take a majority of jobs, possibly by the end of this decade, and we need to start preparing for that eventuality, right NOW! I lost my career path to Al last winter, and I know half a dozen other people who've also lost jobs to Al since last year! This IS coming, and the longer we delay adapting our society and economy, the more unfair it will get. but for my robust investment portfolio that I'd built over the years with my financial advisor, Abby Joseph Cohen, I'd be hungry and homeless
I know this FA, Abby Joseph Cohen Services but only by her reputation at Goldman Sachs; even though she's now involved in managing portfolios and providing investmnt guidance to clients. I have been trying to get in contact since I watched her interview on WSJ last month
Learn to use ai to empower yourself into a perpetual high level hustle.
@@RamseyAlaqelWell her name is 'ABBY JOSEPH COHEN SERVICES'. Just research the name. You'd find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
@@DennisSoklovthis is unsunstainble.. that might buy you another afew months if you're already in a position to exploit Al. anyway, the idea that humans can keep up with Al is utterly absurd.
@@AliciaSalvadoreThank you for this tip. I just looked the name up, wrote to her through her webpage and booked a session..
I still appreciate all the hard work humans put into getting stuff to me much respect folks ❤
Hit 200k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 14k in last month 2024
This sounds more like Business Intelligence using Machine learning.
This explains why the guitar I ordered that initially showed arriving in a week which literally arrived next day. I thought it had to have been from a partnership between Amazon and my local guitar center. Amazing that they are shipping same day and next day on many items.
Sure, except for the fact that their shipping times are actually getting longer.
Amazon AI - Autonomous Indians
Bro😂😂
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i still prefer shopping at the store so i can personally see the product i am buying. i hope these local stores will come back someday.
The key to sustainability is permanent underground infrastructure that includes an automated delivery system similar to the old vacuum tube capsules used at banks and old office buildings.
AI is the new buzzword like cloud computing and machine learning from a couple years ago.
And the funny thing is Amazon has the highest turn around rate in any warehouse/DC setting. I work for TJX DC and a good chunk of the employees are from Amazon. They state that Amazon does not care about their employees.. but does care about..... NUMBERS. Thanks for this information.
The title is misleading and should probably just be changed to AI instead of generative AI. The only thing they mentioned about their usage of generative AI is that "Generative AI predicts where to stock new items by linking them to similar products."
More profits for Amazon, less humans working, that's what everyone wants.
Take a drink each time you hear Generative AI used incorrectly in this video! 😂
better sustainability === more $$$ for corp
yeah stop buying from amazon then
I feel like they should really use USPS more- after all the USPS carrier is coming to your house every day no matter what anyway so why make a different carrier come on a separate trip? Not as environmentally friendly.
My Amazon usps packages often get delivered by a separate usps van. Also USPS is not scaled to deliver a large amount of Amazon products.
ask any usps employee about amazon packages, they hated it.
Can’t afford the drivers at usps rates. Gotta exploit people out of a job to drive for amazon
USPS doesn't cover the whole map, there are roads with no mailboxes which only private companies like ups can reach
The generative AI are the friends we made along the way.
I recently became a delivery driver. If route efficiency is the goal here, they have a while to go. Sometimes its great, but others not so much.
Why
@@alternateaccount4868Because the routing system is horrible.
Remember Amazon told you they had auto charge for its store when it was Camaras and teams in India.
And where goes all the money?
The Workers ✖
Jeff Bezos ✓
I truly wish they could crack down on drop shippers. I hate that I have to sift through a dozen listings for the same cheap product. These vendors are not adding any value, they're only hiding things from blame and responsibility
I’m glad I’m not the only one asking where is the gen ai 😂😂. Just a another buzz word for finance bros and executives to use to increase stock price
Reporter: Would the lights in this warehouse function without generative AI? Does this concrete floor do its job as well without generative AI?
Worker: [blank stare]
i know lav mics dont look super hot. but hearing machinery fade in and out as the speaker changes is a bad look.
Saved you 15 mins - GenAI is not here in the video. It's just traditional algorithms and optimizing ai
1:13 Funny how Tom Forte puts a "MAXIM group" graphic on the TV behind him, instead of putting up a background replacement image on his video call background. 😂
All those workers look miserable, didn’t see one person smiling
I enjoy my job, doesn't mean I'm smiling the entire time.
Better than not working
Yeah, they need replaced with robots. ASAP
@@elpenprice679 this. many people don't work bc they enjoy their job, they work bc they need the money
Hey let them go and hire more bots less broken and stolen items.
Amazon's responsibility is to their shareholders. But remember, the shareholders that they really care about are the board and executives. So, that statement, made by any corporation should be translated to a responsibility to the ruling class.
Shareholders want Amazon to sell more, meaning having happier customers so we order more... 😜
Last night I had to drive 120 miles (round trip) to deliver 4 packages (Amazon Flex) 😂 this morning I had to drive there again to deliver 50 packages. Why not combine the routes to reduce carbon emissions? I understand they promised the customer same day delivery, but it’s affecting our environment
Generative AI is a big unlock for Amazon like Steve Armato said in the video but in reality It's a combination of engineering, people, processes, and technology.
This reminds of the joke from Ant-Man 2
“Do you guys just put the word ‘quantum’ in front of everything?”
- Scott Lang / Ant-Man
I'm very curious about the point/rate of diminishing return on optimizing aspects of last mile delivery for their drivers 🤔
*Faster but certainly not better. Today I'm watching this just as I received my order. (much like always) Dented cans, flat bag of chips and a miracle that the glass pickle jars in one layer of bubble wrap made it unshattered. Just shoved in a box with little padding on some and no padding on the rest. Anyone else in the same cosmos?*
I don't get what is "generative" part in robo arm for example. Generative is for example writing text, music, creating images, But calling mini-robo cart or robotic arm as not AI, but generative AI sounds a bit weird.
I'm not seeing this speed up at all where I live, which is two hours away from Nashville. A couple times lately I have ordered items that have said a week or more for delivery (with Prime), yet they are not shipped out until the day or two before they arrive. The orders have come from the Nashville area. In that week or more wait, I could've driven to Nashville in hour and a half and picked up said items. Compare this with Orlando, Florida, where I used to live, where I could order an item and have it the next day. Also, keep in mind there is an Amazon center less than 10 minutes from my current home and FedEx is just down the road. As of now, the wait is at least five days on any order, where it used to be two, again, with Prime.
Using more robots, will reduce workplace injuries
At 8:51 he said "someone needs to maintain"
It's like removing hundreds of warehouse workers and keeping 5 workers to keep an eye on the machines .
Is that really an answer Mr. Amazon ?
AI is thinking as the role of brain. And human is just laboring. Happy life.
There is zero AI here!
best add i watched but the title was wrong
“Amazon - buy crap you don’t need and destroy the planet in less than the time it took to build Amazon as a company”
This makes it even more amazing that they can't figure out not to ship comic books with liquids in a huge box.
this video was really informative and the use of generative AI in improving delivery times is fascinating! however, i can't help but wonder if relying so much on AI might lead to job losses for delivery workers in the long run. it’s a double-edged sword, isn't it?
This was especially funny for me b/c right now. I ordered something from Amazon and it has been in a mailing loop for 2 weeks. Supposedly it's finally on the way. We'll see...
This video makes me wonder if other videos about subjects I don’t know about are also just saying things that are just wrong.
Wait a Minute. I am still trying to figure out the 2 day shipping? That stopped for a major part of the US. I am lucky if I get things within a week. This in the lower 48 too.
AI really out here working faster than I thought! 🤖 📦 Can't wait for same-day delivery to hit everywhere, though. Efficiency goals, fr.
I hope Brad Stone is watching this so he can include it in his hopefully third book on Amazon.
Same day shipping? There are times that I don't get my packages for _several_ days!
Notice, you don't see a single employee smiling. They all have a look of pain or discomfort on their face.
Puff piece of journalism
Great video 😊😊
🤔Nobody is smiling in this warehouse apart from this guy🤔
What will it help? Isnt it about total purchases rather than delivering fast?
It's a bit hard to see how they have used generative AI instead of predictive AI (if at all) for these tasks.
amazon ruined the essence of family friendly shopping malls. im glad shopping malls are still and is big in southeast asia
They are relying on machine learning while dismissing some human inputs. I say this a an Amazon Guru Flex driver (Guru is Amazon's term for drivers who delivered over 30k packages). There are suggestions I make that would improve customer deliveries and make driver's job easier, but I feel no one at Amazon really cares to listen. When I worked in manufacturing we used a Kanban system where workers would make suggestion that would improve work flow.
It's not generative AI. It's machine learning. Generative AI involves creating language or pictures "generatively" with AI.
Instead of hand-wringing over jobs which will be lost to automation, it's time to start looking at what things need doing that aren't currently getting done adequately, while workers do mind-numbing machine-like work. For example we are in desperate need of more medical and caregiver personnel. The only way to get more is to pay for their education, and stop forcing people to go into debt before they even start earning.
Have it delivered by the private driver (TBA tracking) and you will get whatever shipment late.
We already had all these algorithms. No need to “AI 1984 Matrix Terminator” this.
1:44 look how he's handling your package
Amazon is the most dystopian company. People have to convince themselves to not hate working there.
Regardless if it's Gen AI or not, would it really be that bad if humans were automated out of Amazon warehouses in the next 20-25 years (conservatively). Automating the labor and delivery of their logistics just keeps people safe and healthy. THAT being safe, I know so many Amazon drivers and side hustlers so I would be curious what would replace those kinds of jobs
*But watching the end of the video, I believe that Amazon should completely eliminate the lion's share of trouble by eliminating human workforce entirely as robots do not tire to just dump a box of fragiles on a concrete step, Need no bathroom breaks, no looking on his cell phone for 90 seconds squandering company time, never gets sick, doesn't not need time off or sick or maternity leave, can work 24/7. and much less expensive than the obsolete human retained for PR. Did I mention the symphony of robots is more pleasure to have as company working in industrious harmony outdoing their predecessors..*
This is a Katie Tarasov appreciation comment.
Respectfully but she is so damn FINEEE..
understandable
Remember Go grocery shopping scam? That still goes on at Amazon.
07:11 I see a SICK logo (German sensor manufacturer) 😁
We had to return an item to Amazon the other day. It was a small light-bulb adaptor and it didn't fit. It was in a small box - slightly larger than a matchbox. We took it to the drop-off point and the lady there put it into a black bin-bag and then put a label on it. Talk about a waste of packaging.
I dont think the reporter and her hosts know what generative AI is.
Alexa just told me that I needed more Cat food so I let it order some 😂
This isn't Gen AI, this is ML - which is also novel and interesting - the misuse of Gen AI just takes away from the potency of the video.
Katie tarasov looks super cute! I like the way she looks 😊 very pretty!
Knowledge supports growth.
Is the generative AI in the room with us right now?
Looks like Maxim Group is based out of Tom Forte's living room.
The AI, if any, used in logistics, i.e. warehouse and delivery, operations is predictive AI, not generative AI. It looks like the Amazon management is trying to provide excuses so that they can defend their spending a huge amount of money for investments towards generative AI.
Ah, so that is the reason why 8 items I ordered that could easily fit in 2 small boxes are all individually boxed from the distribution center down the road "AI" must be "optimizing" it.
IA does not contribute to sustainability if the ultimate goal is to sell more stuff. There is a fundamental contradiction with capitalistic principals we have today such as high productivity. Selling more stuff means extracting more ressources and polluting more, there is no observed total decoupling of theses phenomenons at a global scale, no one has been capable of complete decoupling of his impact on ressource extraction and environmental pollution while increasing production, some may have achieved this partially with CO2 emissions which is very far away from true sustainability, climate is only 1 problem we have, humanity is literally at war with nature and drugged to natural ressources specially some that are not renewable.
Also increasing the efficiency of processes has never reduced the environmental damage of those processes, because increased efficiency reduces costs and thus pricing and thus increases demand. This is a very old observation called the Jevon's paradox, we've known since at least the 19th century that improving efficiency of machines or processes does not equals less consumption and thus less pollution and better sustainability. History shows that efficiency improvements are what drive consumption upwards and thus pollution and ressource extraction upwards. Americans are very far away from understanding the world, they are living in a bubble and are incapable of understanding the implications of what they are doing. Amazon can brag all they want about efficiency and all that but they certainly have no right to say their model is sustainable or even suggest it is getting closer to sustainable. IA will allow only one thing, increased consumption because that is the real goal of these tools.
The only sustainable way forward is decreased production, believing we will become sustainable on the long term while increasing growth is like believing is Santa Claus, all data on the matter shows it is impossible, we have 200 years of history to prove it, we have never stopped increasing our environmental impact since the industrial revolution, no technology has changed that, and our energy and ressource consumption is the same, we have never decreased our demand for energy or ressources, we have never needed as many ressources and as much energy as today.
Soon packages in 30 seconds or less
What a time to be alive! 🎉🎊
Wow! Fantastic!
For everyone yes this is Generative Ai. Its uses Deep ML algorithms and transformer model (GAN), for the robots to find new paths, and faster routes for the robots to get all the packages.
Nice Omega Seamaster
I was surprised that Amazon's VP of Transportation Tech and Services connected Generative AI to the speed of package delivery. Does he even understand what he's talking about?
They should put bathrooms in the trucks then have Claude clean them out
Jeez…20 seconds of insight stretched into 15 minutes. I’ll never get that back
Share holders are expensive and their ruining the value of the most mundane things that regular people increasingly depend on.
Their AI will say large custom packaging and it will be a 1oz envelope at the bottom of a tote
I ditched sliced bread and just use Gen AI for my morning toast now.