Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects that generating AI will reduce its company’s workforce in the coming years as online giants begin to increase their use of technology.
“We will need fewer people to do the work that is being done today, and more people to do other types of work,” Jassie said in a message to employees. “It’s hard to know for sure that this will purify over time, but over the next few years we hope that this will reduce our head office workforce as we get the efficiency gains from the widespread use of AI throughout the company.”
Amazon has more than 1,000 generative AI services and applications that are underway or built, but the number is a “small part” of the planned build, the executive said.
Jassy encourages employees to join the e-commerce company’s AI program.
“As we make this transition together, we are curious about AI, educate ourselves, attend seminars and train, use AI anytime, anywhere, and try it out with AI, participate in team brainstorming to figure out how to invent it for customers faster and more broadly, and how to do more work on the urgent team,” he said.
Earlier this month, Amazon announced it was planning invest $10 billion is spent on building campuses in North Carolina to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Amazon has pledged $10 billion to data center projects since 2024 Mississippi,,,,, Indiana,,,,, Ohio and North Carolina As it strengthens its infrastructure to compete with other tech giants to meet the growing demand for AI products.
The rapid growth of cloud computing and AI At the same time, it also sparked the need for energy-hungry data centers that require power to run servers, storage systems, network equipment and cooling systems. Amazon said earlier this month it will spend $20 billion Two data center building complexes in Pennsylvania.
Starting on Amazon in March test The voiceover of artificial intelligence provides its primary streaming service for select movies and shows. A month ago, the company launched Generative injection Alexa.
Amazon has also invested more in AI. The company said in November it was investing $4 billion in artificial intelligence startups Human. Two months ago Intel It said its foundry business will provide Amazon’s network services with some customized AI chips, which is Amazon’s cloud computing unit and the main driver of its AI ambitions.