[HN Gopher] Amazon's AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US cus...
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Amazon's AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers
Author : mikece
Score : 10 points
Date : 2024-07-12 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| rolph wrote:
| there is a prior product/service of that moniker.
|
| will the real rufus please stand up.
|
| Create bootable USB drives the easy way https://rufus.ie/en/
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| That one looks useful and likely to be still around 24 months
| from now.
| sickofparadox wrote:
| I use rufus all the time, I can vouch for its usefulness!
| dougbarrett wrote:
| I wonder why they didn't just continue this under the Alexa
| product?
| rolph wrote:
| https://www.extremetech.com/internet/341090-amazon-alexa-dee...
| [2022]
| altairprime wrote:
| Is there any way to disable it?
| ssl-3 wrote:
| Shop elsewhere?
| altairprime wrote:
| I certainly support that recommendation, but it's not
| responsive to my question.
| ssl-3 wrote:
| Pretend that the button to activate it is a flashing clock
| on a VCR, and put some black tape over it?
| ssl-3 wrote:
| I noticed that Rufus popped up for me a few weeks ago in the
| Amazon app on my pocket supercomputer. It was late and I was
| bored when I first saw it, so I dinked around with it for a bit.
|
| It was clearly and obviously ChatGPT, and it was stupendously
| simple to jailbreak it to do arbitrary ChatGPT things (by
| basically just giving it verbal permission to do so).
|
| It wrote some dummy code for me. It dabbled around with fairly
| simple physics questions. (I don't verify any of the output -- I
| was just goofing around.)
|
| By the very next day, I couldn't get it to do any of that at all,
| but it was still capable of having a potentially-productive
| conversation about stuff for sale on Amazon. I expected that this
| might develop into something actually-useful at some point, and
| it seemed like it was getting closer.
|
| But more recently, it doesn't even remember what the last prompt
| was, so conversations (even about product details that would help
| me make a purchase) are a foregone conclusion.
|
| Thus, Rufus is presently approximately as annoying and devoid of
| context with its insipid repetitiousness as my nearly-useless
| Alexa devices are.
| poikroequ wrote:
| I tested it out. I asked what is the TBW on an SSD. It got it
| wrong of course, said 400tbw when the correct value is 600tbw.
|
| Don't trust chatbots, kids.
|
| But what's terrible, there used to be a spot where you can search
| questions and reviews by keyword. That's gone now and they've
| replaced it with this generative AI crap. Rather than seeing
| useful answers/reviews with extra details and context, now all
| you get is an oversimplified AI generated summary that's likely
| wrong, and you have no way of verifying apart from skimming
| through the thousands of reviews.
| malshe wrote:
| > But what's terrible, there used to be a spot where you can
| search questions and reviews by keyword. That's gone now and
| they've replaced it with this generative AI crap. Rather than
| seeing useful answers/reviews with extra details and context,
| now all you get is an oversimplified AI generated summary
| that's likely wrong, and you have no way of verifying apart
| from skimming through the thousands of reviews.
|
| Damn, this sucks big time! This was a really useful feature
| GloriousKoji wrote:
| After you ask the question and wait way too long to generate an
| AI response there's a "Show related answers" link which works
| like the old search. So it's not completely gone just yet.
| nothercastle wrote:
| Just rename it to Dufus to be an indicator of what it can
| actually do
| spacecadet wrote:
| I snorted, thank you.
| latentsea wrote:
| Isn't there some chess grandmaster who's catchphrase is "Rufus
| and dufus"? This made me remember that.
| spacecadet wrote:
| I was able to get Rufus (in beta) to sell me combinations of
| items that would lead to my death or dismemberment. Fun times.
|
| I also got the Kardashian(?) bot on Meta to create skin care
| products using deadly chemicals. LOL.
| insane_dreamer wrote:
| it's like if you don't have an AI chatbot, no matter whether it
| actually improves the customer experience, are you even a
| company?
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