AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary.
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience.
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Key points
- Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful.
- In practice, at least for buying things, it's more like sending an anxious and apologetic teenager out to the store: They require an inordinate amount of instructions and specifications, run into technical problems regularly, and come back with solutions that are not exactly what you asked for.
- They did, technically speaking, complete a task, just not the specific one you asked them to, and often not in the way you would have approach ...
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- [1]AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary.The Verge: AI · Oct 22, 12:30 PM
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience.
Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful.
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