In a surprise to absolutely no one: Amazon plans to add AI to shopping search

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Saw a Bloomberg article mention that Amazon plans to add conversational AI to its product searches.

Seems like it could be a good idea, it'd be nice to be able to ask like "can you recommend books about X topic," but at the same time, it could be absolutely riddled with promoted garbage (which, honestly, already kind of is the case). What're your thoughts?

ZTrope90 · Accepted Answer

I'll be interested to see if it reduces or increases the amount of garbage on there. So many knockoffs and cheap stuff, would hate to keep seeing those suggestions pop up.

LuckyBoi · Answer

If they do this right it most likely will try to preemptively pick items based on previous purchases and the slide in 2 to 3 that fall in the same category eg: some other SciFi book if it knows you like SciFi

tooba29 · Answer

Sounds interesting you see AI can make your experience smoother

safwan · Answer

Better late than never Ali baba has already had this since a long time but nowadays Google lene is very useful in an AI perspective.

Slog · Answer

Amazing. Given search is fundamentally broken. Understanding product specs better from description, questions, user manual, etc means you will find what you want without paging descriptions.

In a surprise to absolutely no one: Amazon plans to add AI to shopping search

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