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How Amazon Automated My Job: A Conversation With Elaine Kwon

How Amazon Automated My Job: A Conversation With Elaine Kwon

FromBig Technology Podcast


How Amazon Automated My Job: A Conversation With Elaine Kwon

FromBig Technology Podcast

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Apr 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Elaine Kwon was a vendor manager in Amazon's retail organization when the company started to turn her tasks over to machine learning in a program called "Hands Off The Wheel." She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how and why Amazon rolled the program out, how she and her fellow vendor managers reacted, and what it portends for the rest of us.
Released:
Apr 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.