Tag: cognitive surrender
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Instacart Built One Grocery Assistant and Is Selling It Three Ways
Instacart has launched Clementine, an AI grocery assistant available to U.S. and Canadian customers, allowing for easy order creation based on plain-language requests or handwritten lists. With access to over 2 billion items and real-time inventory data from nearly 100,000 stores, customers can enjoy personalized meal suggestions. A Harris Poll shows over 80% of adults…
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Snickers Made a Candy Bar You Paste Into a Chatbot
Snickers made a candy bar for chatbots. Fans paste a digital bar into an AI assistant that has just told them a face tattoo sounds authentically them – the 2010 “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” premise, rebuilt for a machine that agrees with everything.
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AI Deepens Three of Four Innovation Bottlenecks. Only the Volume Problem Shrinks.
Give every innovation team the same models and the results diverge anyway. Five marketing academics traced four stages of the pipeline and found generative AI deepens the human bottleneck at three of them; narrowing ideation, flattering fluent pitches, and simulating consumers who behave far too rationally.
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MIT Tests AI Fake-News Help, Finds a Withdrawal Symptom
MIT Media Lab researchers ran a four-week experiment with 67 participants, asking them to judge whether news headlines and images were real or fake — sometimes with an AI chatbot helping, sometimes not. With AI assistance, participants were 21% more accurate at spotting misinformation. The catch is that the “help” appeared to come with strings:…