Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a uncommon public look at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday and used the chance to foretell that tens of millions of individuals might be dwelling in house “within the subsequent couple of a long time,” the Financial Times reports.
Talking with John Elkann, a scion of Italy’s Agnelli dynasty, Bezos, who additionally based rocket firm Blue Origin, insisted individuals might be dwelling in house “principally as a result of they wish to,” and that robots will deal with the grunt work, whereas huge AI knowledge facilities float overhead.
The pronouncement sounds somewhat like Bezos making an attempt to one-up his house rival. Elon Musk has spent years predicting people will colonize Mars and urged 1,000,000 individuals may dwell there by 2050, which is correct across the nook, mainly. Perhaps each gazillionaires are shedding contact, or else they know one thing the remainder of us refreshing Zillow don’t.
Bezos was equally bullish on different fronts, defending the AI funding growth as a “good” form of bubble on condition that it’s “industrial” moderately than “monetary.”
“There has by no means been a greater time to be excited in regards to the future,” he reportedly declared, as viewers members (in our creativeness) exchanged unsure glances throughout the Turin auditorium.