There’s one other chatbot on the town. Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus is now dwell for all US clients, albeit in a beta model. This follows a testing section that started again in February. Rufus seems to be to at the moment be tied to the app and never the online model of Amazon.
So what does it do? It’s an Amazon chatbot so it helps with procuring. You’ll be able to 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 positive, although a bit boring. I’ll say that I cross-referenced a few of the advisable merchandise with the online model and Rufus doesn’t mechanically record promoted gadgets, a minimum of for now.
It spit out a seemingly random record of well-reviewed merchandise on a number of events. That’s positive by me, although I’m not about to purchase one thing based mostly on the phrase of a one-day outdated chatbot. You too can 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 reply questions on upcoming deliveries and the like.
Amazon says that the bot has been skilled on its product catalog, together with buyer critiques, group Q&As and public info discovered all through the online. 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 had 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. Perhaps, if all of us work onerous sufficient at asking ridiculous questions, we are able to break it simply in time for Amazon Prime Day.