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.
Ok am I wrong or was this not what Google Assistant used to be in the 2010s?
It still is. Problem is if you ask it this you might have to triple check what it tells you because it will most likely be wrong.
This is so sad. I bet Alexa can’t even play Despacito anymore if I ask her to.
When that song went viral, it was played so much that the collective power draw could have powered 40.000 households for a year.
Both of those sound kinda dystopian. Because you just know the first one will start getting gamed by every company from the grocery companies trying to SEO the AI, to the big fossil fuel companies trying to get you to drive your car more.
I can’t wait for the technology to get basic enough where I can roll my own self hosted instance of it without it taking months. Because I can see a way it’s doable without a centralized service to get around that. But for mass consumer level, I can see that becoming true. But this can be applied to every bit of software currently. All of it can be ran by you, if you have time. Hell I’ve got my own cloud (hosted at my home ) music streaming service.
A lot of that is doable now - like, how many grocery stores are even nearby to someone, so writing a custom bit of code to check the website of each, one by one, and looking for previously manually-identified items could be automated.
One major downside is prioritization of large chain stores at the expense of smaller mom & pop ones that don’t maintain a constant inventory system accessible via the web. Someone could even volunteer their time to build them a database backend, but still they’d have to see the value in actually scanning the items every time or else it would quickly fall behind.
How is making a picture of me as an astronaut “dystopian”?
The same technology can be used for widespread, low-cost, highly convincing misinformation and propaganda campaigns
The moon landing wasn’t faked, but I was there instead of Neil Armstrong. See these pics?
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
You don’t need a clever algorithm for #3. You’ll likely only have 4-5 potential targets. You can brute force that in reasonable time.
You don’t need “AI” for that. All you would need is some standardized APIs for the various shops, and you could easily solve this with computer technology from 20 years ago.
The reality is, though, that there are no such APIs. LLMs on the other hand could be a valid tool for the use case.
LLMs are not a good tool for processing data like this. They would be good for presenting that data though.
Llms are great for scraping data
LLMs don’t scrape data, scrapers scrape data. LLMs predict text.
For that you need an expert system managing a data warehouse/Smart agent. That’s not Ai per se
For that you need companies that find value in cannibalizing sales of their more expensive products even if the quality is better.
Most stores in general rely on certain sales driving you in and you spending money on the more expensive items because your already there.
What? Man any standard order management system does that and to have one you don’t need to be any of those things.
Y’all nibbas need Jesus
So your saying you could go to amazon.com and they will instantly show you lower prices at perse Newegg and Best buy.
Also for a company, you order from one or multiple suppliers. There’s no system in place to cross shop, you just have to go to both suppliers and compare the prices yourself.
If they work together to that degree it would either encourage price fixing or cannibalize each other’s sales.
Sure why not, if they have a license for that.
Yeah the second thing that’s what OMS are supposed to be for, it’s B2B sales boy can handle b2c as well…so they do that as well, if you have the licenses and agreements for it
Last thing, nah, it doesn’t work like that. You wouldn’t have businesses working on the first place in that case, fixing prices leads to shortages, and forget about doing illegal activities with those systems, they are to be security compliant so if that happens is a lawsuit in waiting
Expert systems are totally AI
How?
AI is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is more than just language manipulation, and covers a very broad spectrum of things relating to “computers dynamically perceiving and adapting to their environment to further a goal”.
Having a body of information, using rules to infer new facts in light of that information, and using those rules and facts to respond to user inputs in a meaningful and helpful way is an expression of intelligence.
It’s not human level obviously, and it likely lacks advanced language abilities, but that doesn’t make it not an application of AI.AI is in a huge number if things,but we usually don’t label it because it’s usually not notable or interesting.
Lol no, a bunch of control and recursive statements is not an AI hahaha.
I bet you played Akinator and were befuddled by it lolz
I appreciate how you ask a question, and when someone answers you just say “no” and insult them.
Did you know that you can just search for this stuff and learn for yourself instead of being aggressively ignorant?
Are you one of those people who thinks that AI means “a human level intelligence”, or some sort of magic system that doesn’t involve control flow?
I had to look up what Akinator was, but yes, that game is using AI because statistical classification and knowledge retrieval are AI tasks.
If befuddledment is an insult for you, I do t know what to tell you.
Hate to break it to you again but a bunch of ifs is not an AI hahaha 🤣
Do you know how machine learning algorithms work?
