Hi Omer,
I think that is a use case where I'm sure an AI agent does well
right now, but I have 2 follow-up thoughts based on it and what
it is means that this is one of the best use case for AI online
commerce so far.
My first thought was that this is a quite limited application as
most of shopping (online & retail) is not spent comparing prices
and is instead spent on finding what product to buy in the first
place. I believe this "shopping fun" and exploration of multiple
options is not going away any time soon as those are some of the
most attractive parts of the whole experience.
I also think that the price comparison websites that exist, e.g.
geizhals.de here in Germany (includes most e-commerce shops, and
shipping information), are pretty good already and AI only being
a better version of that would be quite a sad turn of events and
with ads (and commission systems?) potentially coming to ChatGPT
in the near future the incentives to find the best price are rly
misaligned and I have doubts that people will trust results from
ChatGPT. We already saw this as Google's sponsored links evolved
to show whoever spent the most for the placement. Paid providers
without ads and commissions might fare better though.
