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Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That 12 billion could have gone to health care, helping the homeless, improving schools, for research into diseases, into renewable energy sources or into making affordable houses.

But this is what we get.

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 2 days ago

Sure but how does that help the business world? Having happier healthier people that stay working age longer so they can take more wages? No! No wage! O ly work!