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Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You (www.wired.com)

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Chilimbi says the first step toward AI agents will likely be chatbots that proactively recommend products based on what they know of your habits and interests, as well as a grasp of broader trends. He acknowledges that making this feel nonintrusive will be crucial. “If it’s no good and annoying, then you’ll tune it out,” he says. “But if it comes up with surprising things that are interesting, you’ll use it more.”

Future AI agents might, for instance, navigate various websites to sort out a parking ticket, or they might operate a PC to file a tax return.

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[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lmao fuck off Amazon. I already hate their stupid fucking AI because when I want to search reviews and the Q/A section for a word like "watt", it makes me wait 10-15 seconds while it tells me that it can't help me with that and that I need to give it more details.

I'm not trusting anyone or anything with my purchasing decisions that doesn't, say, reference the SDS for a product that's being cagey about exactly what the active ingredients are. I did that, and that's why I paid like $5 for a bag of citric acid powder instead of $20 on some citric acid descaling goo that comes in a pretty bottle. That's a very specific example though. I do some variation of that shit any time I buy something, so I'm sure as shit not going to let Amazon spend my fucking spondulix based off of AI hallucinations.

EDIT: Man, I need to deal with my anger towards bullshit AI usage because this shit isn't going anywhere and I spend way too much time being pissed.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Your edit is super relatable and it sucks. It sucks that we can’t opt out of this shit until it collapses, assuming it does, because money.