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An Amazon warehouse – Reuters<\/p>\n
Artificial general intelligence is a hypothetical AI system that surpasses \u200bhuman intelligence and can learn, grow, and operate autonomously. Many \u200bof the top AI companies are working to develop \u2060similar systems, with the hope of deploying them to solve \u200bdifficult problems.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been building large AI models for several years, \u200band it remains one of the most important things we’re working on,” said an Amazon spokesman following a Reuters inquiry. “We\u2019re sharpening our focus on the \u200binitiatives that matter most for customers, so we can move \u200bfaster on what counts. That focus means some difficult decisions, including eliminating some \u200croles \u2060within parts of our AGI organization.”<\/p>\n
Rohit Prasad, a top Amazon executive overseeing AGI, left the company at the end of last year and the head of its AGI Lab, David Luan, left \u200bin February. AGI work \u200bwas consolidated \u2060under senior vice president Peter DeSantis in December as part of a larger group that also \u200bincludes silicon development and quantum computing.<\/p>\n
Employees under Adeeb \u200bShanaa, vice \u2060president of artificial general intelligence data services, and Vishal Sharma, vice president of AGI information, reported being impacted by the cuts on \u2060online \u200bforums on Wednesday. However, the full \u200bscope of the cuts could not immediately be learned. Amazon cut 16,000 jobs across the company \u200bin January.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
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