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I've noticed that instacart (and by extension, Costco same day shopping) has integrated an LLM into their search. It's awesome to be able to search for "ingredi
by doctoboggan 2y ago
I've noticed that instacart (and by extension, Costco same day shopping) has integrated an LLM into their search. It's awesome to be able to search for "ingredients for a chicken and vegetable roast" and have all the separate ingredients you need be returned. You can also search for things like "healthy snack" or "easy party appetizers".
I think this is a great use case for LLM search since I am able to directly input my intent, and the LLM knows what's in stock at the store I am searching.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y agoMay I ask you what makes you so sure that it's an LLM-based search - and not any other kind of NLP search tech?
- doctoboggan 2y agoThey said so in a press release: https://www.instacart.com/company/updates/bringing-inspirational-ai-powered-search-to-the-instacart-app-with-ask-instacart/ https://www.instacart.com/company/updates/bringing-inspirati... > Ask Instacart leverages the language understanding capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT
- aprilthird2021 2y agoCan anyone use this? Might get Instacart just to plan my shopping list before I go to the grocery store
- reaperducer 2y agoNothing you describe hasn't already been done in the pre-LLM era with simple keyword matching. In the city i lived in 2012, the (now defunct) local supermarket chain could handle your roasted chicken request. You could also paste an entire grocery list into a text box and have it load the items into your cart all at once. That's the feature i moss the most. I just tried your snack and appetizers requests with the grocery service i currently use, and it worked fine. No "AI" needed.