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In this edition:
Your AI Shopping Assistant
Bank Cash with Your AI Investment Advisor
AI Pocket Companion
The Increasing Value of AI Prompts
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1. Your AI Shopping Assistant
Whether you love or hate Amazon.com, it offers a heck of a lot of products for sale. While that is good in general, sometimes siphoning through hundreds of products to figure out what to buy can be time-consuming and a pain.
CartBuddyGPT.com can now help. You can ask it a question such as “What is the best-rated electric grill for under $200?”. It will respond with a list of products with the features, title, price, and an image of each product. Appears free to use.
This is an interesting idea. Since the service is free, I assume that they are generating money as an Amazon Affiliate and get a small commission each time someone buys a product on Amazon.
Amazon already includes filters that allow you to exclude lower-rated products, and select certain features, colors, and price range. It’s great that it includes a list of the features, but otherwise, I’m not sure how useful this is.
What might be helpful is a feature comparison. For example, I often narrow it down to 2-4 products and then have to open up a new tab for each to see, which features are present on each product before finally and mercifully selecting one to buy. The AI could create a table that compares just the features.
Opportunity: What other industries or platforms could use such a service?
2. Bank Cash with Your AI Investment Advisor
Now that you’re making tons of cabbage, you need to invest it. Stock investing can be complex. There’s just so much data to go through such as 10-K and 10-Q filings, earnings calls, news updates, etc. It’d be nearly impossible to look at more than a few stocks in this detail, but there are thousands of stocks available. What to do?
Invstr.ai is here to help. It’s an All-in-one investment research platform that processes all that data so you don’t have to. Includes a free tier so give it a look.
3. An AI Pocket Companion
Most AI comes in the form of a new phone app or web application. So this is different. On January 9, 2024, Rabbit is releasing their pocket companion.
In the keynote video, they state that with the smartphone, we have to use a different app for everything we do. We use a calendar app, an email app, a browser app, a shopping app, a calculator app, a news app, etc. They argue that the hundreds of apps on the smartphone make the user interface less intuitive. The rabbit pocket companion uses AI to interface with the user making it more intuitive. I’m not sure about this but I can’t wait to see it in action. Link here.
New hardware integrated with AI remains a largely untouched opportunity.
4. The Increasing Value of AI Prompts
AI Prompts are what you type in to get an answer from the AI. When AI first arrived, most people treated AI like Google. They’d ask, “What’s the tallest mountain in the world?” Very soon thereafter that evolved into open-ended and creative questions such as, “Give me some business ideas using AI.” or “How can I lose weight without exercising or dieting?” Many people still use these types of prompts.
However, to get a much better and more useful response from the AI, one needs to provide more specificity with respect to the context of the question, details about the person asking the question, the format of the desired reply, and various other parameters. I included such an AI prompt in last week’s edition and you can see it here at the bottom.
These much more specific AI prompts, however, take quite a bit more effort and time to create. As a result, the AI prompts themselves have value, and access to them is beginning to be limited, sold, or exchanged for other things of value. I think this will be a growing trend in 2024 as prompts become even more elaborate. Thoughts? I wouldn’t be surprised to see marketplaces pop up where people can buy niche-specific prompts.
In the News…
Apple’s Vision Pro headset to be released in February. Price tag is $3499.
AI Meme of the week…
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