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Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world (techcrunch.com)
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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Couple different layers of joke, actually.

The first is that they didn't actually misread $12B as $128, but saying so is a cheeky reference to how B and 8 look similar.

The second is sort of an attempt at absurdist humor. Obviously $128 is not going to get you very far towards building a physical AI engineer, and that question violates our rational expectations in a way that some find humorous.