Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  the water beverage company Liquid Death has a flavor called “Dead Billionaire”. There are lots of flavors available on amazon but for some reason that’s not one of them.

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  • dil@piefed.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Sure just put the ceo of liquid death and his buddy pasqal on their too, making water cost more than redbulls at festivals, overselling and overcrowding til ppl get crowdcrushed while lying on social media, meanwhile theres hella videos from ppl there always saying otherwise

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    • dil@piefed.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      ofc theyd try to profit off that too, not suprised, liquid death is the only water available, everyone knows it, no one ever thought it was beer, that was just a fun marketing lie and excuse to take away refillable water bottles with caps

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  • SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I understand “eat the rich”, but I have no desire to drink the rich.

    I will, however, pour them out on my plants.

    It’s what the plants crave.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This picture looks like someone is going to throw a hammer through the picture

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Project Prometheus

  That’s some Deus Ex naming shit.

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• SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The name prometheus is already in use by an open source monitoring project:

  prometheus.io

  They are both in the computer field so there is some chance for confusion. Especially if the Prometheus monitoring project has some AI capabilities then that would strengthen the case for a trademark naming conflict.

  Apple Inc, the computer company, had to settle and pay Apple Corps (the Beatles record label) money to settle trademark rights for the Apple name when Apple got into music business:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

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  • thejml@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AI would help to account for the memory footprint of Prometheus monitoring… but no. Not yet (I’ve used it for 7+ yrs at this point).

    However theres also the NASA “Project Prometheus” which also predates this, more closely matches the name, but sadly also doesn’t have AI: found here

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• TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  With how much external funding gets shoved into AI startups these days, I feel like 90% of AI startups are basically just a pump and dump with extra steps and targeted at investors. He’s probably already gotten millions in investments already just by this announcement.

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He should have gone with Colossus. There was a great 1970 scifi film named that about AI and... oh no, never mind.

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You gotta respect the man for how much he seems to relish in being pure evil. Prometheus like the movie, about the bald dudes who created life? And the ultimate artificial lifeform as a weapon that wiped em all out in the end? That’s a masterclass in Saturday morning ass villainy this Jeff practices.

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  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You… do know the name comes from Greek mythology and not that movie? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus

    It is the god that stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. A much more favourable view on the name. Sorry, I am just really concerned that someone thinks of that movie first when hearing the name.

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    • halfapage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Plot twist: it’s secretly Jeff’s comment and he only knows the name from the movie.

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  • Nanook@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah probably not the mythological Prometheus.

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  • phaedrus@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He look like Dr. Evil, too, with those eyes.

    At least Dr. Evil listened to his cronies and acknowledged he was out of touch with his initial low-ball demands.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The wax model of Dr. Evil

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  but Project Prometheus has already hired 100 employees, poaching several from firms like OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, according to the Times.

  I think that one problem with all this spending is that there are only so many people with relevant experience in the area. If wages are high enough, the market will send more over time, but that isn’t instantaneous.

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• 721_bipsty@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol, image preview looks like 2 minutes of hate in 1984

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    i assumed that was intentional

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• kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  There are too few AI startups right now, apparently 🤔

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• makyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh good we need more AI projects right now

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