Tech Roundup: Jeff Bezos's 'Artificial General Engineer' Vision and Orbital Data Center Challenges
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Summary
This article is a curated roundup of notable tech stories from around the web, with the featured story focusing on Jeff Bezos's vision for an 'artificial general engineer' called Prometheus. Bezos argues that societal wealth is driven by invention and that Prometheus aims to accelerate the invention loop through a set of tools. The roundup also includes a piece on the challenges of orbital data centers.
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'Six thousand years ago, somebody invented the plow, and we all got wealthier. Then, much later, somebody invented the steam engine, and we all got wealthier.'
'What Prometheus seeks to do,' he added, 'is to offer a set of tools that dramatically accelerates that invention loop.'
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