Amazon cloud giant AWS wants public sector to embrace AI
Washington (AFP) - Amazon's AWS, the world's biggest cloud computing outfit, is making a major push to entice the public sector to join the artificial intelligence revolution, as the generative AI race with Microsoft and Google heats up. AWS and the other cloud giants say that the technology, made famous by ChatGPT, can have a huge impact on improving public services, including in health, security, charity and NGO work. But getting governments and nonprofits to sign on will be a bigger ask than persuading private companies -- and AWS on Wednesday opened a $50 million, two-year envelope for pot...