It’s what wealthy people use human assistants for. If AI could do it as reliably, people would use that.

tsimionescu 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Key being wealthy. The kind of wealth that has no idea how much a banana costs, and couldn't care less whether it's 10 dollars or 1.

	▲	Windchaser 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn't have to be "wealthy". Like, I should be able to tell Alexa "put in an order for a large Dominoes pizza with pepperoni. Tell them to deliver it in 2 hours".

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jsheard 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not looking good so far. When OpenAI introduced product searches back in April I tried running one of their own example queries from the announcement post, and it obliviously cited "reviews" and "recommendations" from LLM-generated affiliate link farms. I just tried it again and it still falls into the same trap.

	▲	layer8 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I agree that we don’t seem to be anywhere close that level of reliability.