Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos says he agrees with President Donald Trump that the word “artificial” is unflattering, and he prefers the term “Super Intelligence” (SI), though changing the name of AI would take a long time. He expects AI to bring major productivity gains that could let some households work three days a week, and he disagrees with predictions of widespread job losses. Bezos also calls the current AI investment boom a potentially “good” industrial bubble, since useful inventions stay valuable even if some investors lose money. Through Prometheus, the AI startup he co-founded and co-leads with Vik Bajaj, the company is developing an “artificial general engineer” to speed up engineering and manufacturing, after raising $12 billion at a valuation of roughly $41 billion.
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