A fashion photoshoot of a runway look inspired by Amazon boxes. A large screen displays the word “Amazon” –ar 4:3 –style raw

“Amazon robots spotted waiting to cross busy NYC street. 

Amazon robots spotted waiting to cross busy NYC street. pic.twitter.com/ziT3I18XUe

— Storyful Viral (@StoryfulViral) June 7, 2024

Down for less than four minutes a month: how AWS deploys code

https://graphite.dev/blog/how-amazon-deploys-code

“Amazon unveiled Project P.I., an AI system that scans products in fulfillment centers to detect damaged or incorrect items before they ship. Amazon also utilizes a multimodal LLM to investigate issues further, combining customer feedback with Project P.I. images. 

Amazon unveiled Project P.I., an AI system that scans products in fulfillment centers to detect damaged or incorrect items before they ship.

Amazon also utilizes a multimodal LLM to investigate issues further, combining customer feedback with Project P.I. images. pic.twitter.com/3eWmNRZDov

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) June 5, 2024

Amazon: AI spots product defects, reduces waste

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/amazon-ai-sustainability-carbon-footprint-product-defects

Amazon’s Project PI AI looks for product defects before they ship – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170567/amazons-project-pi-product-defect-return-ai-computer-vision

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #36: Week Ending 06/07/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 40 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

For previous issues, please visit the archives!

Thanks for reading!