The purpose of the looking at the future...is to disturb the present!

Gaston Berger (1896-1960), francuski futurolog

Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You

Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask.
Link :
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-agents-shopping-guides-rufus/

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