#a well-programmed algorhythm would know to scan the object listing and not to prompt the user to ask questions about INGREDIENTS

[spaceofentropy]

My amazon app keeps on showing me potential questions I could ask about products to their AI assistant Rufus (which is in beta).

So far I was prompted to ask:

- about the genre of a book. The AI answered it had not enough info to answer. The first line of the book description contains the word HORROR, but clearly that's not enough to answer such a deep and complex question.

- about whether a book dealt with "sensitive/inappropriate topics". The AI answered it had not received a complete question and to please reword my query. Which had come to the system in the first place. Wtf?!

- about the ingredients. Of a book. With the word cupcake in the title.

All in all, great experience, lots of laughter, useless to help shopping.

I wonder how much ass did the Alpha version suck, if THIS is the Beta...

Ah, yes, what did I listen to yesterday? This podcast about Amazon's "AI strategies"; their new "homegrown AI models"; the fact Amazon is gonna sell the services of said AI as a cheaper, slightly lower quality option than the big names of the AI market; how much Amazon is insisting that they've been on the forefront of the AI revolution for the past 20 years; and the fact Jeff Bezos thinks AIs are like electricity, they're gonna become THAT intrinsic to our way of life.

Well, if Rufus is any indication, it's gonna be a life full of useless "helpers" and frustrations, Jeff. How do I opt out?