The dream

I feel like since that's a very useful product it will not be made available to me.

I want said AI to be open source and run locally on my computer

We really need to stop calling things "AI" like it's an algorithm. There's image recognition, collective intelligence, neural networks, path finding, and pattern recognition, sure, and they've all been called AI, but functionally they have almost nothing to do with each other.

For computer scientists this year has been a sonofabitch to communicate through.

The bad news is the AI they'll pay for will instead estimate your net worth and the highest price you're likely to pay. They'll then dynamicly change the price of things like groceries to make sure the price they're charging will maximize their profits on any given day. That's the AI you're going to get.

Next, she's going to want a Libre AI that does not share her information with third parties or suggest unnecessary changes to make her spend more at sponsored businesses.

AI could do this. Conventional programming could do it faster and better, even if it was written by AI.

It's an important concept to grasp

I'm sure there are companies who'd love to develop something like this. And collect that information about exactly what groceries you currently have and statistics of how you consume them, so they can sell it to advertisers. Not advertisers that sell these groceries, of course - for these the AI company could just make the AI buy them from suppliers that pay them.

I want AI to control traffic lights so that I don't sit stopped through an entire cycle as the only car in a 1 mile radius. Also, if there is just one more car in line, let the light stay green just a couple seconds longer. Imagine the gas and time that could be saved... and frustration.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/

google used to do this type of stuff then you get SEO shit and in the same way people would try to game the system and ruin it

This is surprisingly difficult problem because different people are okay with different brand substitutions. Some people may want the cheapest butter regardless of brand, while others may only buy brand name.

For example my wife is okay with generic chex from some grocery stores but not others, but only likes brand names Cheerios. Walmart, Aldi, and Meijer generic cheese is interchangable, but brand name and Kroger brand cheese isn't acceptable.

Making a software system that can deal with all this is really hard. AI is probably the best bet, but it needs to be able to handle all this complexity to be useable, which is a lot of up front work

We were already robbed of the brief value stage of AI, it came out of the gate with a corporate handler and a ™

The internet had a stretch where it was just useful, available and exciting. This does not.

Wasn't the first part what "smart fridges" were supposed to solve like 10 years ago?

So many people in this thread saying "you can already do this if you just do all these extra steps" like avoiding extra work isn't the whole point.

I'm sure Sara is not ready to be served the optimal outcome from a competitive multi-agent simulation. Because when everyone gets that AI, oh boy the local deals on groceries will be fun.

And also the hottest thing a woman can say:

"It runs on lokal hardware"

Cant I get both? Here are your weekly projections, sir. You will need to get this list of items at these locations and here is what you would look like as a latin american dictator. Enjoy

I want both.

There are websites that do things like this. For some time I worked in one. The part missing here is analyzing the user’s pantry.

It's not exactly an ai-task, I guess? Like pretty much the only ai-related thing there is to classify stuff in ocr-ed receipts (technically, one can opencv whatever is in the fridge, but I suspect it won't be reliable enough).

Megacorps gonna love this idea

Even better, have it also create a meal plan and add to the list so I don't have to struggle to figure out what's for dinner every single night.

Not even of porn?

Why would AI made by some company bother searching website or fliers when they could instead show you products from businesses who pay them to show you products?

When the AI made by a company, running on their company's servers, with no way for you to know what it is basing its decisions on... you'd probably best assume that it is acting for the company's benefit rather than yours.

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I want AI to anticipate what groceries I'm running low on, search every flier and website in my city to find the best price, and compile me a weekly list based on best deals per fewest stops. I do not want AI to make a picture of me if I were an astronaut.

This is totally doable. Someone could make that right now. Just have and AI agent like auto got or an open-source alternative and a database that can be accessed and altered.

I want a picture of me as an astronaut...

Sarah radz is a hacker who has broken into your computer and stolen the iPhone app idea you've been working on these past 10 years.

you feel defeated.

You can already do something similar manually with an app called Grocy. I tried it and didn't last two week, too much time spent scanning barcodes and dealing with inventory. I was hoping to save time to generate grocery list faster, not spend my life on it.

Idk man, AI art generation is pretty rad, it opens a whole new world of artistic endeavors up for people who never had the access, ability, time, or energy to do so otherwise. Also, por que no los dos?

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But maybe you want to be an astronaut and just don't know it yet?...

That's not ai.

It can be done with simple nondeterministic polynomial algorithm.

Seems like a nightmare to me

I want both.

Damn no let me make my mistakes, there are way enough people telling me what to do, I need the AI to create pictures of my cat conquering Europe and that's it

I don't think you need AI for that.

• First, anticipating what groceries are low: Simplest implementation would be a list where the user manually enters additions and removals.
• Secondly searching every flier and website in the city. Okay that one will be a bit trickier. First you'd need to gather a list of all stores in the city, and then look for any deal. The big challenge here is that they don't just have a common API where you check. You either need to program a bot to scrape all their web presences, or convince them to provide the information in a common format.
• The last step seems like it could be related to the traveling salesman problem.

This is ridiculous, just go to prison if you want someone making all of your decisions for you. The intelligence within the walls lets just say is very artificial

Why are people like this? It's like somehow they've not actually lived in the real world for any of their lives.

If a product like that existed, and bloody hell would it be complicated, then there wouldn't be a best price for groceries. The fact that a product like this doesn't exist is why there can be variation in price. Otherwise there would be no point.

Interesting that these uninformed takes don't consider that the underlying algorithms are similar, and that advancements in one area often transfer to others.

Piece by piece an artificial mind is being constructed, yet people who are not a part of the research and development process are complaining about which breakthroughs they believe should come first.

*E: Do you think down voting this fact will increase the speed at which chatgpt or midjourney are unreleased? This is just how progress is occuring.