This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Jeff Bezos is again in startup mode (kind of) with Mission Prometheus — a $6.2 billion AI-for-the-physical-world enterprise that immediately turned some of the talked-about new firms in tech. We dig into what this actually means, why the corporate’s location continues to be a thriller, and the way this echoes the period when Bezos was recurrently launching massive bets from Seattle.
Then we have a look at Amazon’s newest real-world experiment: package-return kiosks popping up inside Goodwill shops across the Seattle area. It’s a small pilot, however it brings again reminiscences of the early days when Amazon’s oddball experiments appeared to seem out of nowhere.
And eventually…Todd tries to justify his scheme to improve his beloved 2007 Toyota Camry with CarPlay, Android Auto, and a backup digital camera — whereas John questions the logic of sinking 1000’s of {dollars} into an previous automobile.
All that, plus a thriller Microsoft shirt, slightly Seattle nostalgia, and a sit up for subsequent week’s podcast collaboration with Me, Myself and AI from MIT Sloan Administration Overview.
With GeekWire co-founders John Cook dinner and Todd Bishop.
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