Coming Soon: AI Agents that Shop FOR You
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Coming Soon: AI Agents that Shop For You
Amazon is dreaming up a future where advanced AI agents do your shopping for you - and that future might arrive sooner than you think. "It's on our roadmap. We're working on it, prototyping it, and when we think it's good enough, we'll release it," revealed Trishul Chilimbi, a VP and distinguished scientist at Amazon. The company is training massive AI models with "hundreds of billions of parameters" on vast troves of retail data.
As a first step, Amazon just launched AI-generated buying guides and a chatbot named Rufus to help recommend products. But the end goal is autonomous AI shopping agents that understand your habits, automatically buy items you need, and even "occasionally surprise you," according to Rajiv Mehta, Amazon's VP of conversational AI shopping.
Generative AI’s Act o1 by Sequoia Capital
In a new essay, venture capital firm Sequoia Capital explores how AI is evolving from rapid-fire responses to deeper reasoning, unlocking a new wave of intelligent applications. OpenAI's latest model, o1 or "Strawberry," incorporates "inference-time compute" to pause and think before responding. "This leap from pre-trained instinctual responses to deeper, deliberate reasoning is the next frontier for AI," Sequoia partners write.
This AI reasoning breakthrough is fueling sophisticated "cognitive architectures" that combine foundation models, databases, and application logic to automate complex services. Sequoia highlights examples like AI lawyer Harvey, AI engineer Factory, and AI pentester XBOW. With AI slashing costs, they see a multi-trillion dollar "service-as-a-software" opportunity emerging. "What we're all eagerly awaiting," they note, "is Generative AI's Move 37, that moment when... a general AI system surprises us with something superhuman."
Prompt of the Week
An AI prompt for marketers is a text input designed to guide an AI like ChatGPT in generating creative marketing ideas and copy. It helps you leverage AI to enhance your campaigns and decision-making processes.
This Week's Feature: 3 Quick Hitters
When it comes to getting the most out of AI, sometimes it’s the small tweaks that deliver the biggest impact. This week, we’ve got three powerful 'quick hitters' you can add to any prompt. They're perfect for refining your outputs and squeezing out extra value. From urging the AI to consider multiple perspectives to highlighting key points and summarizing, or even indicating its confidence levels - these prompt additions can elevate any chatbot conversation.
Here are all three:
"Consider multiple perspectives and counterarguments"
What it does: This addition encourages the chatbot to think more critically and provide more nuanced responses. By considering multiple perspectives and counterarguments, the chatbot can provide more comprehensive and well-rounded answers that take into account different viewpoints.
Quick Hitter Prompt #2:
"Highlight the most important points and summarize your answer at the end."
What is does: This prompts the chatbot to emphasize key information and provide a summary, making the response more digestible and ensuring that critical details are not overlooked.
Quick Hitter Prompt #3:
"Indicate uncertainty and confidence levels"
What it does: This practice encourages a chatbot to be transparent about its level of certainty in different parts of its response. By prompting the AI to express its confidence and explain areas of uncertainty, users can better gauge the reliability of the information provided and identify aspects that may require further verification or research.
🚀 Discover the 27 ‘Plug-and-Play’ AI Prompts Every Marketer Needs
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Tool to Try
Trickle is an AI platform that empowers users to create powerful AI agents using natural language, eliminating the need for coding skills. By describing their ideas in a document, you can build intelligent applications that solve real-world problems, automate tasks, and generate creative content. Trickle's intuitive interface and flexible AI tools is fostering a a vibrant community of creators who share their innovative AI agents.
AI Tool Highlights:
🤖 Natural Language Creation: Trickle allows users to create AI agents by simply writing out their ideas in a document, making the development process intuitive and accessible to all.
🧩 Flexible AI Tools: The platform offers a wide range of AI tools that can be combined freely to create powerful and versatile AI agents, tailored to specific needs and use cases.
🌐 Web Integration: Trickle's AI agents can leverage web search capabilities to generate content, analyze data, and provide accurate information based on real-time sources.
👥 Community-Driven: Users can explore and utilize AI agents crafted by the Trickle community, fostering collaboration, inspiration, and the exchange of innovative ideas.
🚀 Endless Possibilities: From SEO blog generators to personal trainers and vacation planners, Trickle enables users to create AI agents that span across various domains and industries.
🔄 Iterative Development: The platform encourages users to continuously evolve and refine their AI agents, turning creation into an ongoing journey of improvement and adaptation.
One More Need to Know News Story
Google Shopping is Getting an AI Makeover
The company has rebuilt Google Shopping from the ground up, integrating its Shopping Graph of over 45 billion product listings with advanced AI models. The result is a highly personalized shopping page that includes an AI-generated brief to help you find exactly what you need faster.
In addition to the personalized feed, the revamped Google Shopping features a dedicated deals page to help budget-conscious shoppers find the best prices. AI-powered tools like visual search in Google Lens, which can now provide specific product information and prices across retailers, along with virtual try-on and augmented reality shopping, aim to make the online shopping experience more intuitive and immersive.
Mind Fodder
Originally posted via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld
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