Bezos predicts that millions will live in space kind of soon

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Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos made a uncommon nationalist quality astatine Italian Tech Week successful Turin connected Friday and utilized the accidental to foretell that millions of radical volition beryllium surviving successful abstraction “in the adjacent mates of decades,” the Financial Times reports.

Speaking with John Elkann, a scion of Italy’s Agnelli dynasty, Bezos, who besides founded rocket institution Blue Origin, insisted radical volition beryllium surviving successful abstraction “mostly due to the fact that they privation to,” and that robots volition grip the grunt work, portion immense AI information centers interval overhead.

The pronouncement sounds a small similar Bezos trying to one-up his abstraction rival. Elon Musk has spent years predicting humans volition colonize Mars and suggested a cardinal radical could unrecorded determination by 2050, which is close astir the corner, basically. Maybe some gazillionaires are losing touch, oregon other they cognize thing the remainder of america refreshing Zillow bash not.

Bezos was arsenic bullish connected different fronts, defending the AI concern roar arsenic a “good” benignant of bubble fixed that it’s “industrial” alternatively than “financial.”

“There has ne'er been a amended clip to beryllium excited astir the future,” helium reportedly declared, arsenic assemblage members (in our imagination) exchanged uncertain glances crossed the Turin auditorium.

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