I don't want any of this crap. We need to push for the right to opt out of AI features. All of this garbage should be opt in.
"We need to push for the right to opt out of AI features."
You've had access to Firefox for over 20 years.
Press the "Gatorade" button, and Gatorade shows up at the front door the next day. Except that it might cost you $2.49, or it might cost $12.88. There was no way of knowing beforehand.
(Those things were awesome tech, BTW. You'd program it with your phone via the equivalent of an acoustic modem.)
My grocery store makes this really tedious because they don't have a feature to sort by price per pound. So I have a stupid ritual where I ctrl-F "($0." and repeatedly ctrl-G to see all the apples under $1/pound. Then I do it again with ctrl-F "($1." to see the ones in the $1-$2/pound price range. And there are several other products with similar annoying processes.
If an AI could just do that for me, it would save me time. I don't actually think present-day AI would do it reliably enough, but the concept sounds fine.
If an AI could just do that for me, it would save me time.
I just look at the flyers that come in the Sunday newspaper. Problem solved in under 30 seconds with near-zero effort.
Cheaper than an AI subscription, too.