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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.

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.

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

I was working on this with a friend over 10 years ago but the only grocery store that made a decent effort at organizing their website to be scrapeable was Loblaws and all the others had APIs that cost $100,000

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.

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.

Yeah, but I want AI to make a picture of you as an astronaut but with two extra domes on the suit so I can see ur sweet tits at the same time.

I want people to use the right acronym, its a LLM not an AI.

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.

I want self organising files and things so bad. I need an algorithm to look through my digital library and fix the metadata.

I don't want AI to give me coupons for the cheapest food available.

I want to be able to use my bike or walk to buy tasty, nutritious, locally produced goods every days.

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.

1. Have a camera on all the places you store food, let AI analyze it to tell you what's missing.
2. Do some standard web scraping for prices.
3. Use some clever algorithm to calculate the route (might not be always optimal, but there are some good algorithms for the travelling salesman problem).
4. Let a LLM write some bullshit around the data to appear human.
5. ???
6. Profit

Ok am I wrong or was this not what Google Assistant used to be in the 2010s?

For that you need an expert system managing a data warehouse/Smart agent. That's not Ai per se

Fuck that. I want AI to power a robot boyfriend.