Re:Jeff Bezos on AI, 1998
by neilv on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:49PM
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> But oh, hey, you just bought a vacuum cleaner? I know what you would really like! MORE VACUUMS!
Amazon did literally this to me just a couple days ago.
I'd bought a vacuum cleaner on Amazon a week earlier, and, when doing an Amazon checkout of a cart with one item, it threw up a list of consumable items that I'd bought in the past, to possibly add to the order... including another one of those $120 upright vacuum cleaners.
(Maybe they have data that says this makes them more money, even though I'd guess it might hurt customer confidence in the site.)
Amazon did literally this to me just a couple days ago.
I'd bought a vacuum cleaner on Amazon a week earlier, and, when doing an Amazon checkout of a cart with one item, it threw up a list of consumable items that I'd bought in the past, to possibly add to the order... including another one of those $120 upright vacuum cleaners.
(Maybe they have data that says this makes them more money, even though I'd guess it might hurt customer confidence in the site.)