back to article Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build

Amazon Web Services is struggling to get the high-quality servers it needs to build AI infrastructure and has retired other hardware early to make room to accelerated machines. Those peeks into the state of AWS infrastructure came from CEO Andy Jassy and CFO Brian Olsavsky, who revealed the info during the Thursday earnings …

  1. Irongut Silver badge

    > An app for third-party sellers that lets them “take a picture of an image or point to a URL, and the Generative AI app will fill in most of the rest of the information they have to fill out

    That explains all the very poor quality listings on Amazon these days.

    > when you come to buy a pair of shoes, for instance, it can recommend what size you need.”

    I know what size I need thanks, it has been the same for over 35 years. Your AI will not change the size of my feet.

    > broadcasts of American Football, AI helps to issue “defensive alerts, where we predict which players is going to blitz the quarterback or defensive vulnerabilities where we were able to show viewers what area of the field is vulnerable.”

    Do People's Republic of America foot-the-ball fans not understand their own dumb game? Its quite simple - the point is to advertise plastic crap and sugar so you buy buy buy more!

  2. Numen
    Headmaster

    Looks like they'll be spending money for a loooong time

    Supply problems matter because Amazon spent $26.4 billion on capital expenditure in the final quarter of 2204

  3. Smart Tech

    An app for third-party sellers that lets them "take a picture of an image or point to a URL, and the Generative AI app will fill in most of the rest of the information they have to fill out."

    Ah, so that explains all the very poor quality listings on Amazon these days.

    "When you come to buy a pair of shoes, for instance, it can recommend what size you need."

    I know what size I need, thank you very much. It has been the same for over 35 years. Your AI will not change the size of my feet.

    Broadcasts of American Football, AI helps to issue "defensive alerts, where we predict which players are going to blitz the quarterback or defensive vulnerabilities where we are able to show viewers what area of the field is vulnerable."

    Do People's Republic of America foot-the-ball fans not understand their own game? It's quite simple - the point is to advertise plastic crap and sugar so you buy, buy, buy more!

  4. UnknownUnknown Silver badge

    Growth

    5-9% growth predictions and shares marked down $10 a pop.

    ROFLMAO.

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