So, we’re just adding AI shit everywhere just because now? Is this some kind of “me too” game that corporations are playing? The amount of times in the past 4 years I have needed an AI to help me out with anything at all has been exactly zero, unless you count making stupid images on Bing for shits and giggles.
Grocery stores are always trying new things hoping it’ll be the next big thing, but usually it doesn’t catch on.
When I was a kid back in the 1980s and '90s, they would add a small digital calculator to the handle of the shopping cart to help people figure out how much they were spending. It wasn’t useful to people, so it disappeared.
Then they used to have the live lobster tank back in the deli. Turns out, most people don’t want to buy live lobster at a budget grocery store in a working class neighborhood.
Then around 2000, stores started expanding significantly to become a One-Stop shop. Bragging that you could buy a pair of shoes and fresh produce all in one place. It sounded kind of stupid, but it caught on in a huge way! Walmart have been the best at implementing this model, but others like Fred Meyer did it first.
Then they started to implement the curbside pickup. Which was totally dead and nobody used it in an absolute failure… Until the pandemic hit, and a bunch of people tried it, and realized they liked it.
So the next thing? Sounds like goofing around with AI in their app. Will it be useful? Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Holy shit I remember those calculators, thanks for unlocking a distant memory of trying to spell words in it upside down while my mom shopped.
AIs like these have only been available for less than a year, so I’m not sure why you used a four-year timeframe.
If these AIs aren’t useful to you then don’t use them. It’s not unreasonable to be exploring these options, though, since these AIs are a new capability. It makes sense to experiment with new capabilities to see whether they can make things easier.
Businesses run on Investor/Shareholder dreams, and they dream about the next newest bullshit to make money. Thats why Crypto and Blockchain got so big a few years ago.
Damn kids and their skateboards
aromatic adjective ar·o·mat·ic ˌa-rə-ˈma-tik ˌer-ə- 1 : of, relating to, or having aroma: a : having a noticeable and pleasant smell : FRAGRANT aromatic herbs aromatic wines b : having a strong smell The peat burns with a pungently aromatic smoke. c : having a distinctive quality
I mean… If we are going with definition 1.b… It’s not wrong. It is an aromatic water mixture. It’s just not an aroma that you want.
Peggy Hill bout to file the first copyright suit.
man, not even Stephen King imagined supermarket robots trying to tell grandma to go home and accidentally off herself with mustard gas
If grandma asks for a recipe using the ingredients ammonia, bleach and water then maybe if she ends up offing herself it wasn’t an accident.
Maybe the bot isn’t too useful but acting surprised or horrified because if you give it a list a crazy ingredients you get a recipe using the crazy ingredients you provided is kind of weird. This article is basically clickbait.
are you being dramatic for personal or professional reasons
Only personal at present, but I’d happily turn it into a profession if someone wanted to pay me to post “dramatic” comments on Lemmy.
Any takers?
Mum used to make this for us when we were too poor for actual mustard.
Yumm, just like grandma used to make (before she killed the rest of the family)!
