And it's a service because AI
And the service costs a subscription fee
And the service quality drops once it saturates the market
And the service now contains ads
And the grocery stores can pay to promote their store when it is not the most affordable option
And now it's not economically feasible to not use their service
The cheapest way to get groceries in the States has always been do all your grocery shopping in the same store, preferably a discount store like an Aldi, instead of cutting coupons and going to multiple different stores due to the simple fact that the gasoline used for driving around is most likely going to cancel out any saving from shopping around, an unfortunate side effect of America's car centric infrastructure.
You don't really need an AI to make this list, plus, I think there are apps that already trying to do exactly that.
However, getting a computer to draw yourself in ridiculous situations (usually with an equally ridiculous number of fingers) is great entertainment.
Yeah, im skeptical of AIs to accurately do any of that, at least not any LLM. Like, LLMs aren't going to be could at decision making based on ever-changing real time information.
However tradition software and apps with good data practices can do this...indeed some of them have existing for like a decade in certain markets....they themselves becoming systems people and companies try to gamify to sometimes counter-productive outcomes.
Any generative AI that was trained using the entirety of the Internet is gonna suck as an information tool, since it will have more bad information in it than correct information and its goal isn't to make sure the info is accurate; its goal is to output text that looks intelligent and isn't obviously generated by a computer.
Even if you fed it nothing but correct information, it will still end up blending multiple things into a single output, generating inaccurate information.
I don't want AI that just generates shit anywhere but in a video game. I want a tool that can go through real data and give me the relevant stuff I am asking for. Which was handled better with whatever Google was doing 20 years ago than whatever the fuck AI shit they got going on now.
AIs use will never see it reach its full potential because companies are liars and deplorable entities that have historically demonstrated they will screw over everyone and everything for profits.
In another universe, AI would help people. It would tell you that you are eating too much bread. It would alert you that you do not eat enough foods in vitamin A. It would tell you that your late night habits of staying up lead to poor health. It would tell you that going to be before 12am leads to you having much better restorative sleep. It would tell you you’re sitting in one position too long. That if you left now, you’d make it 5m early. The list is endless. A machine always calculating and monitoring your status; in an effort to improve your life.
In our universe it’s going to tell you to buy Anamin’s sleep aid, now 50% off. Then track how much you take it so the company that sell you more. Or pass the data to their “partners” so they can sell you more crap.
Yeah electronics lately instead of helping people squeezes money from us
Android smartphones are just elaborate ad viewing devices with extra stuff to not throw it out. Apple are subscription milking devices where you effectively pay monthly tribute to be less of a walking data stick. pick ur poison
Best we can do is sell you a $200 piece of plastic that promises to but doesn't actually do these things, then automate your job away.
The kind of AI this person describes would have to be self-hosted, because anything being run as a service would sell your data and companies would be able to use that data to screw with the AI's output. It would be rad as hell though - I don't want an algorithm making decisions for me, I want an algorithm giving me the information I need when I need it.
It is, sadly, all very poorly focused on the things that won’t benefit society as a whole, but once again, the ruling class. I really wish AI had not been developed with the intent to make white collar jobs obsolete. If only these same brilliant minds had been focused on robotics and processes that humans don’t want to participate in.
That would be currently possible with a combination of AI and standard computing.
- Have a camera on all the places you store food, let AI analyze it to tell you what's missing.
- Do some standard web scraping for prices.
- Use some clever algorithm to calculate the route (might not be always optimal, but there are some good algorithms for the travelling salesman problem).
- Let a LLM write some bullshit around the data to appear human.
- ???
- Profit
They already have these for browser extension but it's a privacy nightmare
I want both.
Best I can do is give you a list of the worst deals for you that will bring your money to the corporations who paid me the most with a nice helping of targeted ads for all eternity.
Reality. 'AI' application just spyware that tracks your spending habits and sells them to mega corps that then adjust the products and pricing to you to maximise profits. Uptake is below investor expectations as most intelligent people realise the service is an expensive con. VC funds run out and backend is shut down. User left with expensive non-functional device.
Well, Google tried it with their Assistant many years ago, people got scared how smart it was and it got nerfed into a ground.
They're working on that, the easiest bits come first and creativity is easier than ordered thinking and data analysis. People with diminished brain function often use art as therapy and create very creative things, they never analyze and compare datasets for therapy though...
Image gen is a huge part of making useful tools, what we see as the final product- an image generator is actually just a side product of teaching CV to recognize items and apply human labels, this is what will allow you to tell it 'look for red shoes with funky tassels' and it can do it for items not tagged with those descriptions. Plus a million other really useful things, like 'watch granny for signs of distress' without having to explain yes having her hand caught in a loom is distressing.
Also current ai are mostly toys because it's safer to practice and explore toys than tools, it won't be long before you're saying 'you kids don't know about old search, you had to know she what you were looking for and where it should be...'
