Readit NewsI understand, for example, search with intent to buy "I want to decorate a room. Find me a drawer, a table and four chairs that can fit in this space in matching colours for less than X dollars"
But I want to do the final step to buy. In fact, I want to do the final SELECTION of stuff.
How is agent buying groceries superior to have a grocery list set as a recurring purchase? Sure an agent may help in shaping the list, but I don't see how allowing the agent to do purchases directly on your end is way more convenient, so I'm fine with taking the risk of doing something really silly.
"Hey agent, find me and compare insurance for my car for my use case. Oh, good. I'll pick insurance A and finish the purchase"
And many of the purchases that we do are probably enjoyable and we don't want really to remove ourselves from the process.
I am still thinking and trying to figure out what the new concepts i.e social media, streaming, etc, of the AI era will be. There are of course the extrapolations of existing concepts, e.g shopping just like it adapted to the internet world will adapt to the AI world and you'll have a few companies there -- equivalents of uber, amazon, zomato, etc (or maybe those companies themselves).
Products with no margin such as translation will of course get a million times better, but I mean in terms of economic value.
It sounds like a trivial question to answer, but it just exposes the level of detachment that exists between who makes the purchase decisions and its users in SME context.
Those demos have soul. The AI versions don't.
They succeed in some ways at capturing the human emotion in the demo, and fall flat in other ways.
- The lyrics capture
- The melody captures
- The production is too polished
- The voice doesn't have the same emotion at all
Depending on how you evaluate, it's either amazing it gets this far, or not impressive at all. :-)
I'd add the demos to my playlist, I wouldn't add the others. (I'm not against AIs in general.)
Conclusion: Low, unless you're willing to take only a fraction of the face value.
Thinking through it though - you might be able to get away with spending the cash overseas, where it will take some time indeed for the money to be under scrutiny by banks to see if the serial numbers are out of circulation. There's then problem of getting the money there without anyone noticing, then there's the problem of what kind of characters you're going to be defrauding overseas.
All told - probably a better idea is to use all that cleverness to make a 1.5 million dollars the good old fashioned way: Spending a few years saying, "Nothing from my end" on Zoom calls.
So no hate to the author but this feels like pointless political posturing
In addition, the causality is sometime backwards. The substance abuse and mental issues come after homelessness as people try to cope with the incredible stress of life on the streets. This, of course, makes it even harder to pull out of the downward spiral.
It’s tough but I encourage everyone to find a way to support/volunteer reputable organizations in their areas