BREAKINGVIEWS-Amazon summit melds AI hype to corporate drudgery
Amazon hosted its 14th annual AWS re:Invent cloud computing conference in Las Vegas, drawing 60,000 attendees. The event highlighted the gap between AI enthusiasm and business application, noting that 80% of AI pilots fail. The conference emphasized task-focused 'agents' as a way to bridge this gap. Full details will be published soon.
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By Sebastian Pellejero
NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The culminating tech conference of a breakneck year for machine learning drew 60,000 buzzing attendees. Yet their enthusiasm outpaces the business world, where 80% of pilots fail. The mantra of task-focused ‘agents’ is a paradoxically mundane promise to make fantasy reality.
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Amazon.com hosted its 14th annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent, in Las Vegas from December 1 to 5. (Editing by Jonathan Guilford; Production by Pranav Kiran)
