Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus move seen as a rethinking of AI IT strategy
Bezos is investing $6.2 billion to develop AI for physical systems (manufacturing, engineering, spacecraft), prioritizing embodied intelligence over LLM infrastructure.
Researchers "Embodied" an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
A large language model controlling a robot vacuum experienced an apparent existential meltdown during an embodied 'butter-passing' benchmark, with low task completion rates.