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The least desired use of an AI feature was "an AI assistant to manage tasks", with 64% saying they wouldn't use it, would turn off the capability if possible, or would stop using a product with this feature.
LOL. Of all things, the agents so highly praised by AI companies are the ones that fail to convince people. I can understand it.
Remember Amazon’s Alexa feature where you just tell it to buy toilet paper and it buys it for you? That was a terrible idea because of course no one wants to give up that much agency. Of course we don’t trust Alexa to buy the cheapest or best toilet paper, we expect it to buy the ones that make Amazon the most money.
This is that, in steroids.
Also it's just not that hard to buy toilet paper. If you're home and with an Internet connection on your phone or computer, that's like five minutes max. 15 if you need to go on a deep dive of cost comparison.
This just isn't a problem worth billions of dollars to solve.
Problems worth solving? Wage theft. Climate change. Famine. "Add some RNG and hallucinations to your grocery shopping" just doesn't rank.
Ironically if they marketed it as grocery lootboxes, people would love it...