Wow the sceptics really came out in force for this one.

I’m currently using Gemini to research components for a remote controlled plane. I have the frame of the plane and now need to buy correctly specced servo motors, an engine, battery, etc etc. It has saved me so much time and educated me tremendously on how the different components interact and the options available.

If I could just press “buy” from within Gemini and pay via Google Pay (or better still, Apple Pay) I’d do it in a heartbeat.

If ChatGPT can do this today, I need to try it.

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y-curious 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The entire point of shoehorning AI into everything is to make people stop thinking for themselves and allowing a corporation to do it for them.

“””If I could just press “buy” from within Gemini and pay via Google Pay (or better still, Apple Pay) I’d do it in a heartbeat”””

Yeah, until that becomes enshittified and you don’t notice because you no longer do research on components.

	▲	WarmWash 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>...is to make people stop thinking for themselves and allowing a corporation to do it for them. Insert that "always has been" meme. Microsoft was brought to court in the 90's for shoehorning in Internet Explorer.
	▲	cdelsolar an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		so what, i want to build a little remote controlled plane that works

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nope1000 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would assume the average purchase in Walmart is significantly more low-tech than this though

	▲	Vexs 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's not even just that- with component selection you have a handful of datasheets that give you (ideally) fairly truthful information about the device. You can rather deterministically look at these and compare them. Regular consumer products? Good fucking luck. Anywhere an LLM pulls from is probably going to be mostly SEO'd listicles.