Amazon has closed its San Francisco artificial intelligence lab, while also laying off 1,100 Florida warehouse workers as part of a separate renovation project.
The e-commerce giant shuttered its lab, which had been seeking to achieve artificial general intelligence, the hypothetical breakthrough in which a computer could match a human in intellect, according to the Information. The team had a peak of around 80 people but dozens had already left.
Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The company had yet to file a layoff notice with California officials…