Amazon promotes Rufus for AI shopping assistance

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. If you have been using AI to assist with shopping, join the club. Walmart has made headlines with ChatGPT and at Amazon, the company’s own Rufus AI tool is there for assistance. Smart shopping expert Trae Bodge…“It can do a lot for you. So when I’m shopping and I have maybe an unusual question, I can ask Rufus. Or for holiday shopping you could say, I have 500 dollars to spend. I want to divide it between my kids, ages 5,7 and 9 and Rufus can make specific product recommendations for those ages and keep it within your budget as well. So it does a lot of the leg work for you.”And lots of the brain work too. Rufus can make recommendations based on past purchases. And it can check on an order status as wellYou can find us at Techstination.com. I’m Fred Fishkin.