There’s one other chatbot on the town. Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers, albeit in a beta model. This follows a testing part that began back in February. Rufus appears to be like to at present be tied to the app and never the net model of Amazon.
So what does it do? It’s an Amazon chatbot so it helps with buying. You possibly can ask for lists of advisable merchandise and ask what particular merchandise do and stuff like that.
I’ve tooled round with it a bit this morning and it appears high quality, although a bit boring. I’ll say that I cross-referenced a few of the advisable merchandise with the net model and Rufus doesn’t robotically checklist promoted objects, no less than for now.
It spit out a seemingly random checklist of well-reviewed merchandise on a number of events. That’s high quality by me, although I’m not about to purchase one thing primarily based on the phrase of a one-day previous chatbot. It’s also possible to ask particular questions on merchandise, however the solutions appear to be pulled immediately from the descriptions. As any common Amazon buyer is aware of, a few of these descriptions are correct and others aren’t. The chatbot is tied to your private account, so it may possibly reply questions on upcoming deliveries and the like.
Amazon says that the bot has been skilled on its product catalog, together with buyer critiques, neighborhood Q&As and public info discovered all through the net. Nevertheless, it hasn’t disclosed what web sites it pulled that public info from and to what finish. It didn’t even verify that these have been retail-adjacent web sites.
If you wish to attempt it out, replace to the most recent model of the app and search for the colourful icon on the bottom-right. Possibly, if all of us work onerous sufficient at asking ridiculous questions, we are able to break it simply in time for Amazon Prime Day.
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