I don’t have any actual data to inform my feelings (I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to find), but any time this stuff comes up I have to wonder about the economics

I don’t have any actual data to inform my feelings (I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to find), but any time this stuff comes up I have to wonder about the economics of building out the AI, instrumenting a store, building or buying/licensing software for the customers to interface with, the compute, bandwidth, etc… Versus paying some kid $7 an hour to hit buttons on a screen. As uninformed as I may be here, my gut says that it doesn’t make a lot of sense.