AMAZON JUST WALK OUT:Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, the AI scene has exploded. We’ve seen dozens of startups cash in on the gold rush and big tech has been slapping AI onto everything they do. One of these recent innovations was just walk-out technology from Amazon. The idea was simple. You can walk into any Amazon grocery store you want, pick up the items you need, and just walk out. AI was supposed to do all the work of keeping track of which items you picked up, how much your
Probably because they’re trying to sell shit with the assistant rather than the assistant be the product. I swear our echos get worse literally every day. No, I don’t ever want to hear “also” or “did you know” after you answered my question, shut up and stop trying to sell me stuff!
Selling you shit has always been the point for echo/alexa. The device is sold at cost and the assistant is “free” because they’re trying to make money from the other side of the business.
It hasn’t worked at all, by the way. This more aggressive version is a last ditch effort to make it profitable. The only ones who managed to make smart speakers profitable are Apple, but that’s because they charge much more for the device