Friday, November 24, 2017

Artificial Intelligence Would Make Black Friday Shopping Easier!


I hope everyone survived through all the Thanksgiving dinners yesterday. For me, I got up at 1AM, so I could attempt to buy a carpet cleaner that was going to be on sale during the Black Friday event at Walmart.com. Unlike last year, there I didn't have a bit of trouble accessing the website, and I was able to order the carpet cleaner. While I was on the website, I went ahead and searched for several of the DVDs and Blu-rays that were supposed to be on sale, but none of them were listed. I later found out the movies are available to purchase in stores only.

Instead of going back to bed, I decided to work on a few blog posts and I watched one episode of Friday Night Lights, which I recently started watching on DVD. At 4AM, I went into the kitchen and began cooking the Thanksgiving meal. Thanks to a few zero calorie energy drinks, I was able to get through the day, survive three loud cousins, and drag myself to the Black Friday sale at my local Walmart store prior to the event's start time at 6PM. After squeezing myself through the crowd of shoppers, I was able to get a few of the DVDs and Blu-rays on my list. I ended up going back the next morning to see what movies were leftover, and I was able to get all the others, minus the Warcraft DVD that I wanted.

Now as I'm writing this post, I am feeling a bit under the weather. Mostly, I'm just worn out, but I believe I've caught a bug, as my throat is sore. I keep wondering to myself about why Walmart and other stores won't list all their Black Friday items on their websites. It would be so much easier for those of us who just don't want to go shopping in a store on Thanksgiving!


Wouldn't it be nice if there was some sort of artificial intelligence (aka AI) that would make Black Friday shopping an easier experience. We already have cars that can drive themselves (well kinda), so why can't there be a robotic AI that's programmed do your shopping.

Yes, I know this would only exist in a science fiction fantasy novel or film, but how neat it would it be to program a shopping list into a AI robot and send it to the store to retrieve everything. You would be able to all the cool Black Friday items - movies, video games, kids' toys, clothes, books (such as Quarterly Essay 54 Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country After the China Boom by Andrew Charlton or The Right to Trade: Rethinking the Aid for Trade Agenda by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton).

Until such an AI shopping robot is created, I'm stuck going shopping myself on Black Friday!


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